The music of Lean Year -- the indie duo of vocalist Emilie Rex and filmmaker/musician Rick Alverson -- dwells in hushed, meditative atmospheres built from sparse arrangements of traditional rock and orchestral instruments. The couple released their full-length debut, Lean Year, in 2017. The follow-up, 2022's Sides, re-teamed producers Alverson and Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings).
Rick Alverson emerged on the broader indie scene in the 1990s as leader of the Nick Cave- and Leonard Cohen-influenced Drunk. Beginning with 1997's To Corner Wounds, the band issued four albums on Jagj...