Gallery: Adrianne Lenker and Suzanne Vallie at Kings Theatre

Earlier this week, Adrianne Lenker and Suzanne Vallie performed a show together on Lenker’s Bright Future Tour at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. Lenker, whose new album Bright Future was one of our highest-rated of the last 10 years, brought a career-spanning setlist to the Big Apple, playing her solo gems like “Sadness As A Gift,” “anything” and “symbol,” along with Big Thief cuts like “The Only Place,” “Oldest” and “Incomprehensible.” In their cover story feature on Lenker, music editor Matt Mitchell wrote that “Bright Future, like all of Lenker’s solo work (and her songwriting in Big Thief, too), is an effort to unearth a vulnerability or an experience that already exists, to not admonish or avoid lines like ‘When we’re together only one thing moves, everything else stays the same’ or ‘Though the distances traveled are expanding still, we meet in dreams by the lilac river’ or ‘This whole world is dying, don’t it seem like a good time for swimming before all the water disappears?’ Lenker refuses to fabricate feelings, instead preferring to refine her tools and expound on the lifelong culmination of her own bravery—which she so deftly fosters on all 12 songs.”

“Bright Future is a record that demands to be listened to with headphones on,” they continue. “It flourishes in its own details, which includes every possible sound that may have trickled into the 150-year-old room at Double Infinity that was used during the recording sessions.”

Check out our photos from Adrianne Lenker and Suzanne Vallie’s Kings Theatre performances, captured by Emilio Herce, below.

Suzanne Vallie

Adrianne Lenker