She remembers the uncertain periods that followed. Lenker was born into a cult in Indiana that her parents left when she was young.
If Lenker's songs ring true to life, it may be because they're true to hers. Lenker's unflagging excavation of the meaning in her own life has given Big Thief's music its raw, vulnerable power. Before that album was even released, it had already recorded much of another: Capacity, an album that took Masterpiece's diaristic folk-rock, made myth of personal matter and, upon its release in 2017, accelerated the group's rise. Lenker's unequivocal, instinctive and deeply personal songs earned the band a spot on esteemed indie label Saddle Creek's roster, and its album Masterpiece established it as a breakout act of 2016. That closeness is part of what listeners hear and feel in turn from Big Thief's music.
She forms the kind of closeness with others where she can write a song in someone's name and have it be in every part a song about herself, too. " Mary" is addressed to a dear friend, but Lenker often feels she's singing it to herself. A beloved song, " Paul," reads as a song about a male lover, but is actually about balancing two sides of her own personality. Names fill Lenker's songs as well: "Haley," "Mary," "Lorraine," "Paul," "Randy," "Jonathan," "Kerina." "Sometimes I need a name for themes in my songs, but oftentimes they're just about me or directed to myself," she says. "She's probably many things to many people," an old teacher of hers from Berklee College of Music says. She's Charlie sometimes to Mat Davidson of Twain, who opened at the first Big Thief show, and 'Aderrianne' to Max Oleartchik, the bassist in her own band. She's Dran to her sister and brother, and Lunx to her college bandmates.
The lead singer of Big Thief is Anne or Anna sometimes to her parents Anna or Annie to her grandmother. Those close to Adrianne Lenker know her by many names.
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