“Playing music and touring makes me happier than anything,” the singer-songwriter Madeline Kenney says on a call from the home she shares with her boyfriend in Oakland, holding her phone to her ear with one hand and cooking an egg with the other. “But career-wise, it's a horrible choice to make.
It's so temperamental, so fleeting. People can decide they hate you and that you suck, and then your career is over.” Kenney’s new album, Sucker’s Lunch, out now via Carpark Records, is in many ways an attempt to ignore this irrefutable truth.
She started writing the record while living in Durham, North Carolina, with her friends Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack of Wye Oak, both of whom would go on to co-produce the record.
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