![News Added Apr 21, 2016 In the second season of HBO's noirish crime drama True Detective, it was clear that the singer-songwriter Lera Lynn played a singer-songwriter of a different sort on TV — specifically, a heroin addict clinging to a bottom-of-the-barrel bar gig. For Lynn, getting into that character involved co-writing appropriately bleak material […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cover600x600-10-320x320.jpeg "Lera Lynn : Resistor")
In the second season of HBO's noirish crime drama True Detective, it was clear that the singer-songwriter Lera Lynn played a singer-songwriter of a different sort on TV — specifically, a heroin addict clinging to a bottom-of-the-barrel bar gig. For Lynn, getting into that character involved co-writing appropriately bleak material with Rosanne Cash and T-Bone Burnett, world-class producer of evocative soundtracks; surrendering herself to half a dozen stylists tasked with mussing her hair, ripping her clothes and hollowing her eyes and cheekbones; and, as she put it to one interviewer, "just trying to sing with as little affect as possible." The effect was that of a soul who'd reached a dead end and was just as dead on the inside.
In the music she's made under her own name, Lynn has favored melancholy, too, but her album Resistor is alive to experience beneath the shadows. Having entered Burnett's circle, she might have been expected to record this set with him and his stable of sought-after studio talent. Instead, she stuck to her longtime partnership with Nashville guitarist Joshua Grange; the two of them co-produced and played nearly all of the instruments. Within that self-sufficient, seemingly insular dynamic, they found room to explore richly sensual minimalism.
Lera Lynn's new album Resistor is out April 29 via Resistor
