Precious Thing, by Allegra Krieger

Precious Thing

by Allegra Krieger

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AD Songs composed with gorgeous musicality that is rather unique. There is something enchanting I can't quite put my finger on, that keeps me listening on repeat Favorite track: The Circumstance.

orphanedpennies So much space for the instruments, voice and words to breathe and expand. Gorgeous! Favorite track: The Circumstance.

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1.	Wake Me If I'm Asleep 04:02	buy track
2.	Isolation 02:54	buy track
3.	Taking It In 03:19 video	buy track
4.	The Circumstance 02:49	buy track
5.	I Drank Wine 03:34	buy track
6.	Let Go 02:29	buy track
7.	Just For The Night 03:15	buy track
8.	Precious Thing 02:47	buy track
9.	No Machine 03:32	buy track
10.	Walking 03:26	buy track

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On Allegra Krieger’s 'Precious Thing', out March 4 with Northern Spy, the singer-songwriter tries to capture fleeting moments in a world that is sick from itself. With a voice that rings like a windchime signaling a storm coming, Allegra masterfully weaves together ephemeral moments as life barrels by her unforgivingly. From singing about sharing a gaze with a man on the train to Coney Island as the clock strikes 12 on New Years, to letting go of a loved one, to processing the religious trauma of wine, Krieger portrays the particular pang of being a woman alive in a modern world.

In October 2020, Allegra drove across the country to record 'Precious Thing' in Marin, CA with producer Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic, Art Feynman) and musicians Jeremy Harris, Kalia Vandever, Rob Taylor and Jacob Matheus who contributed organs, synths, bass and lap steel. Delightfully mellow but never bleak, Precious Thing is a soundtrack for the daily motions of our lives.

“Precious Thing,” the album’s title track, reminds us how gorgeous it is that we can get up everyday and do the same thing. “It’s watching something leave you,” Allegra says about this song, “wanting to fast forward to the end of the leaving, to move on, become lighter somehow.” In the song “The Circumstance,” Krieger sings about trying to revel in the consistency that two people have built together, knowing that it can and probably will end. But for now, here is the light from the morning on her lover’s face, a book on a sofa in the apartment they share together, the milk in a coffee “rising like a plume.” The song brings to mind questions of fate and coincidence: loving somebody is a beautiful circumstance, an almost-perfect thing brought together by the chaos of surviving under the capitalist sun. But what if it had been different? What if being alone is better than the loneliness of trying to make something to work?

Something else that’s central to this album is routine: Allegra’s lyrics celebrate the ebbs and flows of our daily lives, the people who come in and out of them, the hope that one of these days, somebody will stick around. In “Let Go” she sings, “When you woke up did you think of it?/ Your body/leaving behind the routine?” This comes up again in the phenomenal closing track, “Walking,” when she sings, “I don’t expect wonder or magic or rain/Maybe a smile at a stranger passing/ and maybe one day/ I’ll see that stranger again.” There is a specific fertile sadness to this song, as she describes days of serving eggs and pouring beers and “the faces and bodies” of lovers fleeting, that is guaranteed to make listeners burst into tears because it will make them think about being alive in one body and wanting something so badly, even if they can’t name what it is.

At the heart of this album is a young, working woman asking “Do you see this right now? I can’t be the only one.” This is an album about looking, and Krieger fills up each lonely space she enters with her gaze. Krieger asks you to look, to really, really look, so that you can remember something, however small it is, when it’s all gone.

– Melissa Lozada-Oliva

credits

released March 4, 2022

Allegra Krieger - voice, guitar, piano (6, 9)
Rob Taylor - electric bass (2, 4, 5) all upright bass/string sections
Jacob Matheus - electric guitar (2)
Luke Temple - piano (2) electric guitar (4) organ (7)
Jeremy Harris - pedal steel (2, 7, 9) vibraphone (4) synth (7)
Kalia Vandever - trombone (9)

Produced by Luke Temple
Engineered and mixed by Jeremy Harris
Recorded at Panoramic in West Marin, California
Mastered by Chris Weiss

Album design by Ellen Foster Price
Photo by my grandpa

Thanks to my family members, friends, and everyone who supported the creation of this record.

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Allegra Krieger New York, New York

allegrakrieger.com

shows

Jun 04

Baby's All Right - Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY
Jun 11

Purgatory

Brooklyn, NY
Oct 26

Neptune Theatre

Seattle, WA

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