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"Phil Elverum-approved nineteen-year-old troubadour Adrian Orange (a.k.a. Thanksgiving) has long played the precocious `gifted kid' of the Northwestern nature-boy set, pumping out lo-fi tunes that reached for the sublime heights of the Microphones and Little Wing while often fluttering just below pale imitation. On his triple-LP opus Thanksgiving, however, all bets are off. Obviously tour-refined, Orange has summoned an effortless crop of melodies and, moreover, an adult's surefootedness to buoy his journeyman musings." - CMJ "Orange is capable of making mopey, indie folk-pop that's downright fucking transcendent." - PORTLAND MERCURY "Adrian Orange, the person behind the music of Thanksgiving, is one young and prolific artist. I dare you to look up his discography and not be amazed - all of this work done by the age of nineteen ... he has a gift of making great three-minute rock songs that break the mold." - BIG YAWN Thanksgiving's eleventh release, Bitches Is Lord is a revelation of the highest order as Adrian Orange sets out to capture the energy, presence, and full-bodied force of a Thanksgiving live performance. Features more of the meaningful songs that Orange does so well, but this time around things just sound fierce. Hints of Johnny Cash and Crazy Horse-era Neil Young are touchstones. Minimal dirges and cloaked political blues butt up against triumphantly colorful anthems. Bitches Is Lord lyrically drafts propositions for a new era of humanity while exploring the painful beauty of what it is to be human. This is, notably, the first Thanksgiving album completely performed, recorded, mixed, and produced by Adrian Orange himself. Drums smack with raw intensity, and guitars curl and bounce around Orange's deep, older-than-his-age voice, sounding out cries, laments, and triumphs unto the dawn of this troubled world.