Photo Credit: Noah Lenker

Last year, Adrianne Lenker released Bright Future, her tender, country-inflected sixth solo studio album that earned a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album and widespread acclaim as one of the most powerful albums of 2024. Today, she continues to celebrate that breakthrough project with the announcement of Live at Revolution Hall, a sprawling collection of live treatments of those songs and more from her celebrated discography. The album will arrive next Thursday, April 24, via 4AD, and it’s preceded by the new single “happiness.”

Live at Revolution Hall comprises 43 tracks recorded over three nights during her summer 2024 tour, including all ten cuts from Bright Future and other fan-favorite entries from her solo catalog, like “anything,” “symbol,” and “zombie girl.” Also featured are five previously unreleased songs, “happiness,” “oldest,” “ripples,” “i do love you,” and “no limits,”; hear “happiness,” a gentle, intimate and richly textured recording grounded in her keen eye for poignant details, below.

The Big Thief bandleader is alternately alone on these songs and accompanied by her touring and recording collaborators, pianist Nick Hakim and violinist Josefin Runsteen. The project is artfully engineered by Andrew Sarlo, who captures the gravity of the performance with a soft, humming atmosphere.

“It was impossible to do this album without the immense love and respect I have for my friend,” Sarno shared in a statement. “Watching the power of the music disarm and permeate feels a bit like an ‘I told ya so’ but I am still amazed every time. From the sidelines I cheer. This live album is another generous offering from Adrianne… Clocking in around 120 minutes featuring songs & vignettes recorded exclusively on reel to reel and cassette tape, there was an attempt to create a different spin on what a live album could be… we put friendship at the focal point making this a loving memento from one friend to another.”

Live at Revolution Hall is available to pre-order and pre-save of digital and limited double-cassette formats now. Read on for the album’s full tracklist, and find tickets for Big Thief’s upcoming performances in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and New York at bigthief.net.

Live at Revolution Hall – Adrianne Lenker:
1. hello, i love you & blue lightning
2. door & how are you?
3. little things   
4. happiness   
5. cut my hair   
6. time & escaping wild whistling   
7. cattails & soundcheck
8. ruined
9. nick & josefin
10. symbol   
11. real house   
12. indiana & sneezing   
13. now westlin winds
14. i do love you   
15. brief message for adrianne
16. heavy focus   
17. vampire empire   
18. lady midnight, i’ll tape you back together
19. born for loving you   
20. i will always love you
21. noah
22. spud infinity   
23. oso
24. promise is a pendulum
25. backwards intermission
26. evol (kcehc)
27. fangs
28. oldest   
29. sadness as a gift   
30. drawing a star
31. orange   
32. two reverse   
33. free treasure & fire trucks
34. ripples & happy birthday alice
35. fool   
36. not a lot, just forever   
37. naljf & crowd
38. no limit   
39. donut seam   
40. zombie girl   
41. happy birthday everyone
42. anything   
43. wake me up to drive