Adrianne Lenker Hours Were The Birds 2LP standard Jacket We are not a punk

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2 Drifting Too Far from the Shore

whose diligent exploration of the outback of jazz and constant expansion of the boundaries of the genre

and punk feels like a nod to Contra as well as Billy Joel's "You May Be Right

Adrianne Lenker Hours Were The Birds 2LP standard Jacket We are not a punkIn 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. Its 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