“It’s always changing, and I hope it’s ever-changing,” he says. “But I think whenever Adrianne and I first met, we were playing as a duo, and we were both writing songs for our project under our names Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek, and we made a record called the a-sides and b-sides. That was a combination of both of our songs and some co-written songs. And when we came together, we started writing together. But I think we toured for two years like that, made one record, and then it felt like we were both just needing to have a little more autonomy in the writing process. At the time, it just felt like we both wanted autonomy to be able to fully commit to our voice, in developing our voice. And so we split our projects, with Big Thief being primarily her songwriting project and Buck Meek being mine. It just kind of gives space for our independent, individual voices.”
