Anti-folk torchbearer Adam Green, a founding member of The Moldy Peaches, will release his debut solo album GARFIELD on Rough Trade Records on October 22nd. A creative songwriter in the surrealist tradition of Townes Van Zandt and Skip Spence, Adam's music is sparse and melodic - short and simple. His voice is natural and expressive like Tim Hardin who he admires.
Every song on the album is different from the others. Some sound theatrical, infused with the syncopated rhythms and pauses that are present in ragtime and cabaret music. While others are shell shocked and withdrawn, blunt and weather beaten - written from the perspective of a silent observer. Some songs will even qualify as pop songs - albeit cracked pop songs, skewered with guitar distortion and encrusted with rhinestones.
A vagabond by choice (Adam is rarely seen without his backpack), his lyrics are teeming with half-remembered mythologies and pieces of lost conversation's. As a listener, one must try to deconstruct these musical equations and be creative in assembling our own meanings of the songs.
