SINGING ADAMS
Moves
Singing Adams is the
vehicle for Steven Adams, formerly of The Broken Family Band. This, the group’s
second album, is a loosely connected suite of songs related to modern life in
London: not the most original concept, one might reasonably claim.
However, Adams finds something fresh in Britain’s over-exposed capital
city. He does this by being what could be termed ‘old-fashioned contemporary’.
His subjects are up-to-date, and include two mediations on the 2010 riots (‘Black
Cloud’ and ‘London Trocadero’), yet his tart-but-humane songwriting style has a
long lineage. Adams, rather than sitting easily with the current crop of indie
troubadours, has more in common with the generation before him: the latest albums
by The Weather Prophets’ Pete Astor and Gene’s former frontman Martin Rossiter
are its bedfellows.
The jangle is solidly played, and it’s not solely serious reflection; in
fact, Moves is at its best when it
allows itself a certain cuteness, notably on the Belle & Sebastian-ish
‘Theme From Moves’.
Jeanette Leech
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