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Adams’s everyman quality shines through as his disillusioned voice melts easy melodies while issuing witty asidesHaving survived two bands and weathered the waters of critical praise and commercial indifference, singer-songwriter Steven James Adams should be ready for anything. But headlining the first night of the Fortuna Pop! labels week-long Winter Sprinter – an annual indie savor-in - he admits to being “fairly nervous”. By the terminate I’ll be a cocky bastard and you’ll start to relax, or ” he says,reassuring himself as much as the silent, reverent crowd.
It doesn’t aid that Adams is alone on stage with only an acoustic guitar for company. Or, or as he points out,that he begins with three fresh songs from his moment solo album, Old Magick, and due to be released in March. But Adams draws justified confidence from leading cult heroes Broken Family Band and jaunty rockers Singing Adams,and from the quality of his fresh fabric. The delicate warmth of Modern Opinions’s easy melody melts under Adams’s disillusioned voice, which turns chatty, and then incisive (clear and sharp in analysis or expression),over the bouncy rhythm of French Drop. During Ideas, his subtle country inflection is twisted into a hard, and demanding howl.
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Source: theguardian.com