Léna Bartels - The Brightest Silver Fish (2025) [Official Digital Download]

On her sophomore album of abidingly strange and brilliant rock songs, The Brightest Silver Fish, Léna Bartels often writes from somewhere in between emotions. The Brooklyn-via-Portland songwriter observes patterns playing out between her narrators and others—sometimes from a great distance, sometimes from so close that all we can make out is gradient color and blurred motion. She explores the unintentionally destructive ways we express care for one another—how coercion can feel inseparable from desire, and how people become so accustomed to feeling disempowered that they forget their own agency. Informed by the attitude of ‘90s alt-rock and the tight craftsmanship of classic singer-songwriters from Rickie Lee Jones to Aimee Mann, Bartels shifts her musical landscape boldly with the needs of each scene, creating distorted images of a haunted, uncertain world.

TRACKLIST

1. Léna Bartels - Lead Me On
2. Léna Bartels - Amber
3. Léna Bartels - Fighter
4. Léna Bartels - Bad Sugar
5. Léna Bartels - Sludge
6. Léna Bartels - I Knew
7. Léna Bartels - Nothing Makes Me Feel Touched
8. Léna Bartels - Why Won't You Let Me Keep It
9. Léna Bartels - Give Myself A Way
10. Léna Bartels - The Brightest Silver Fish



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