Hours Were the Birds

Also available in the Adrianne Lenker Bundle including abysskiss, Hours Were the Birds and a-sides and b-sides!

On the heels of her most recent solo album, abysskiss, Adrianne Lenker’s prior work will be widely available for the first time on November 16, 2018. Adrianne Lenker's first solo album, Hours Were the Birds, will be available on CD and LP. Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek’s two releases will be available together as a double CD or single LP, simply entitled a-sides and b-sides. This marks the first time that any of these songs will find their way onto vinyl and onto the record store shelf. 

LP PACKAGING NOTES:

• Includes download card

With the release of breakthrough albums Masterpiece and Capacity, Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker has established hers as one of the most powerful voices in music. As Consequence of Sound describes it, "Thanks to the swift ascent of Big Thief, singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker has become one of the most praised indie folk artists of the last five years.”

While her output with Big Thief is what brought her music to the attention of most who hold her in such high regard, Masterpiece is not the beginning of the story. "My first solo record I made was Hours Were the Birds,” Lenker explains. “I moved to New York and, starting from complete scratch, had nothing to show anybody that was representing what I did, other than stuff I made when I was 13. So, I decided I should record a solo album of my songs that I had been accumulating.”

In 2013 Lenker returned to her hometown of Minneapolis and entered Terrarium Studios with producer Rob Oesterlin, where she laid down ten songs on acoustic guitar. “It’s basically just like a live solo show,” Lenker describes, “but with an added twist.” She then enlisted NYC friend Andrew Sarlo to mix the album (he would later engineer Masterpiece and Capacity), and on January 24, 2014 Hours Were the Birds was released into the world. Drenched in beautiful imagery and intimate stories, it is the work of a woman on a journey, conquering new territory with bravery and honesty.

Release Date: November 16, 2018 (originally released January 24th, 2014)

TRACK LIST
1. Hours Were the Birds
2. Lighthouse 
3. Disappear 
4. Gone
5. Steamboat
6. To Violet
7. Indiana
8. Buttery
9. Snow Song
10. A Love of Some Kind