Walker Lukens / Song Confessional

Contact: walkerlukens@7smgmt.com
Contact: songconfessional@7smgmt.com

Austin, TX-based songwriter has become well known for embracing contradiction, "blending genres and techniques" (Billboard) into a sound that's hard to pin down. NPR's All Songs Considered described him as a "rhythmic sound effect master" who creates "curious, textured music," while World Cafe called it "wonderfully inventive."

“I’ve never wanted to be one of those songwriters who compartmentalizes what part of their lives comes out in their songs," he says. "I wanted to deal with Trump, and Charlottesville, and the 'Me Too' movement alongside things like breaking up and falling in love." Lukens took creative inspiration from work like Bob Dylan's famously wide-ranging double LP 'Blonde on Blonde' as well as Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' while writing and recording ADULT.

"That, to me, is the trick - making something personal and political that doesn't try to make sense of itself," he says. 'ADULT' was produced by Spoon drummer Jim Eno, and features new tracks along with the previously released singles "Baby" and "Tear It Out My Heart."

SONG CONFESSIONAL

Song Confessional’s mission is to enable today’s top songwriters to create new songs inspired by everyday people’s experiences. Song Confessional collects recordings of people telling their own stories and then gives these recordings to songwriters who transform them into new original songs. Many of them are featured on our NPR podcast, Song Confessional.

Started by Austin musicians, Walker Lukens and Zac Catanzaro, the project was initially conceived as a music festival activation. In pre-pandemic times, the duo traveled to various festivals and events around the country in their blue camper trailer / recording studio. Attendees could hop into the trailer and be recorded recounting any experience they wanted. These ‘confessions,’ as we like to call them, were then shared with songwriters to write and record an original song. Once recorded, we’d press the song to a one-off 7” vinyl record and send it to the confessor who inspired it all. Our favorite songs are featured on our podcast.