Hours Were the Birds

by Adrianne Lenker

Hours Were the Birds cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 December 2013
  • Label: Saddle Creek
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 30:22
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released independently prior to the formation of Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker's first official solo album highlights her virtuosic acoustic fingerpicking and distinctively intimate vocal delivery. It stands as a vital foundational text of her poetic, introspective approach to modern folk music.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, Acoustic, Female Vocalist, acoustic, melodic, existential, female-vocals, minimal, unpolished, folk

Tracklist

  1. Hours Were the Birds (3:11)
  2. Lighthouse (3:29)
  3. Disappear (3:51)
  4. Gone (4:06)
  5. Steamboat (2:41)
  6. To Violet (0:57)
  7. Indiana (2:29)
  8. Butterfly (2:43)
  9. Snow Song (3:56)
  10. A Love of Some Kind (2:53)

Credits

More from Adrianne Lenker: full discography