When the singer and songwriter Adrianne Lenker was 21, she was involved in a bike accident that knocked out one of her incisors. But after she was able to invest in a porcelain tooth, Lenker realized she actually didn’t want to forget about the injury. “After all that time with just a gap, it kind of felt strange to not see the scar,” she said in a recent interview. And over the past several years, she has earned a reputation as a songwriter who sees the scars, and turns them into something beautiful. Though Big Thief is a band of four equals, Lenker — who sings, writes and plays guitar — is the engine powering its sound.

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Persons: Adrianne Lenker, Lenker, “, ”, Fleetwood Mac, Lenker —, Philip Weinrobe