Adieu. is a fifteen-song album released by Logan Lynn on September 23, 2016.
Album
Lynn released Adieu. on September 23, 2016, on CD, digital and double album on red vinyl via his own label, Logan Lynn Music. Produced by Lynn and his longtime collaborator Gino Mari and recorded and mixed at The Country Club studios in Portland, the record has garnered celebrity endorsements from actor and comedian Jay Mohr, Author and Emmy Award-winning journalist Sheila Hamilton, Lynn's mentors and former label mates The Dandy Warhols and others.
On January 1, 2016, Lynn and his longtime producer and collaborator Gino Mari released a new single called "The One". Lynn sited his friends and former labelmates The Dandy Warhols for being the inspiration behind the song's modern garage rock sound. Glide Magazine wrote "Logan Lynn has always had a knack for making danceable rock and pop and with 'The One' he shows that he can now confidently rock out with the same gusto”.
In February 2016 Paste Magazine released the album art for Adieu and Vortex Music Magazine released the liner notes, where Lynn writes about his ongoing struggle with depression, surviving suicidal ideation in the face of grief, and his own resilience in the face of persistent mental and behavioral health challenges. In an interview with Coming Up Music Magazine, Lynn addressed the album's subject matter, "This record was really tough to make, which is why it will be four years between albums. I lost my partner, I lost my dog, and I lost myself in the process of losing them both. My own mental health struggles tend to show up in the form of persistent suicidal ideation…so the record is a snapshot of that time in my life. It’s about my mental health crisis, overcoming grief, and figuring out that love is still stronger than anything else, even in the face of extreme loss. It feels like the album I have been trying to make since 1998 when I started putting out records."
In June 2016, two days after the mass killing of LGBT people and their allies at Pulse Orlando, Lynn and Mari released a new charity single from the record titled "Go There When You Want To Be Loved" in support of the families and survivors most impacted by the tragedy. Lynn and Mari donated 100% of the proceeds to recovery efforts with Orlando's gay community. In a feature story and interview with Myspace Music the week of the release, Lynn said “I’m a gay man, so I can’t donate blood, even to save other gay men who are dying because they are losing their own blood, so it felt very much like I needed to do something other than sit on my hands. I wrote the song about feeling like I didn’t have a safe place in the world; This feeling like I’m a man without a country, I’m a man without a place to go.”
On July 1, 2016, the pre-order for Adieu. went live alongside a new single, "Can You Get Me Off?" This was the fifth of the fifteen new songs on the record to be released. Later that same month, Lynn and Mohr shot an interview about Adieu., mental health and other topics at iHeartMedia Portland. In a long-form review of the album published on Lynn's website, Mohr was quoted as saying "Logan Lynn's Adieu is a victory for the broken bones and bruised hearts that support our heavy souls. Impossibly, yet beautifully, Adieu makes no claims to anything other than a simple truth: Life is awful, until it's not. For anyone that has ever felt disconnected, unheard, under-appreciated or unrequited, this is the album to hold tightly to your chest. A+", about the record.
In the September 2016 issue of Spain's Mondo Sonoro Magazine, Adieu. was selected as a red star new release pick alongside Frank Ocean. They gave the album 7 out of 10 stars. That same month, New Noise Magazine wrote "Logan Lynn Brings Back 90s College Rock" in their review of the record. The September issue of Blurt Magazine gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, and NBC's "Live at 7" called the record "masterful" during a segment with Lynn and Producer Gino Mari. The week after the album was released, Willamette Week ran a feature story on Lynn and the old Portland music scene he grew up in with Elliott Smith and The Dandy Warhols. The piece was focused on the release of Adieu., which the publication called his "most uncomfortable album yet".