Most Helpful Customer Reviews
|
|
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning debut album, 10 Sep 2003
This album is stunning, one the best debut albums I have ever heard and is destined for big things when it is released. It contains eleven tracks of pure unbridled energy and musicianship.
Starting off with Gods Busy in the Back Room, track after track of pure excellence follow until the final delicate Rhodes and whispers of Waltz For An Insomniac leave you gasping for more. If you like your music melodic but with a hard edge, accompanied by excellent lyrics which are issued by passion, energy and beauty then this is THE album for you, and once it is in your CD player it will be a long time before it leavesChris Insley’s effect driven guitar riffs and Bert Genovese’s melodic and catchy bass lines will be going around in your head for ages. Add to that Andrew Freni’s skillful drumming and Conal Byrne’s vocals and keyboards, plus other contributions from band members and production staff, and you have an album of pure musicianship. Tracks likes Idiot Savant begin with eerie beauty but then develop into pure raw rock. The rhythmic A Cut Cocoon, the hypnotic keyboard and catchy drumming of Concrete Beach, each song is different and compelling. As for Conal’s voice, a lot of comparisons have been made to Bono, and that is not insulting at all to either singer, and Conal has certainly the best and most distinctive voice you will hear on a rock album this year.
The bands influences of Radiohead, REM, U2, Tom Waits and even jazz provide the foundations, but they have built a completely original and worthy building on top. This is one of the best bands you can see live at the moment but are sometimes hampered by dodgy sound systems, but their first full length CD proves how good the band and their songs are. The album is produced by Richard Barbieri, now of Porcupine Tree and previously of Japan, and engineered by David Wrench and together they make it a must album for 2003 and for years to come.
|
|
|
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best debut album for years and for years to come, 9 Sep 2003
This album is stunning, one the best debut albums I have ever heard and is destined for big things when it is released. It contains eleven tracks of pure unbridled energy and musicianship.
Starting off with Gods Busy in the Back Room, track after track of pure excellence follow until the final delicate Rhodes and whispers of Waltz For An Insomniac leave you gasping for more. If you like your music melodic but with a hard edge, accompanied by excellent lyrics which are issued by passion, energy and beauty then this is THE album for you, and once it is in your CD player it will be a long time before it leavesChris Insley's effect driven guitar riffs and Bert Genovese's melodic and catchy bass lines will be going around in your head for ages. Add to that Andrew Freni's skillful drumming and Conal Byrne's vocals and keyboards, plus other contributions from band members and production staff, and you have an album of pure musicianship. Tracks likes Idiot Savant begin with eerie beauty but then develop into pure raw rock. The rhythmic A Cut Cocoon, the hypnotic keyboard and catchy drumming of Concrete Beach, each song is different and compelling. As for Conal's voice, a lot of comparisons have been made to Bono, and that is not insulting at all to either singer, and Conal has certainly the best and most distinctive voice you will hear on a rock album this year.
The bands influences of Radiohead, REM, U2, Tom Waits and even jazz provide the foundations, but they have built a completely original and worthy building on top. This is one of the best bands you can see live at the moment but are sometimes hampered by dodgy sound systems, but their first full length CD proves how good the band and their songs are. The album is produced by Richard Barbieri, now of Porcupine Tree and previously of Japan, and engineered by David Wrench and together they make it a must album for 2003 and for years to come.
|
|
|
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A bright hope for the future, 9 Aug 2004
Adom are a US band who I know very little about, though apparently they supported Porcupine Tree on their 2003 Spring UK live dates and this album was actually produced by Richard Barbieri, Porcupine Tree's keyboardist (and once, a very long time ago, a member of Japan). I also hear that although they're American they've relocated to the UK because they think it's the right place for them to be. Stylistically they've been compared to Radiohead and Aqualung, with one reviewer suggesting that they are like Aqualung jamming with Nirvana, which I rather liked. While I think of it, I guess that there are also touches of Muse's first album and the now defunct but still missed Angel Tech. But while those comparisons are all fair it would be unfair to just write Adom off as copyists. Instead they just may be the new saviours of intelligent guitar-led rock/pop, partly because of their excellent and intricate songwriting, and partly because of their experimental/progressive edge. The band are capable of producing melodious songs with epic hooks, but it's their impressive ability to add layers of atmosphere using electronica and guitar that makes them stand out from many of their contemporaries. Every track on this album has something to offer, but it's with the final four tracks ('Green', 'Concrete Beach', 'Supermarket Surgery' and 'Waltz For An Insomniac') that Adom particularly stand out. It's the range and class of these four tracks, at the end of what is already a great album, that convinces me that Adom could be the next truly great band of the 21st Century. They're not quite there yet, but I'd like to think that it's only a matter of time. Best tracks are 'A Cut Cocoon', 'Down', 'Green', 'Concrete Beach', 'Supermarket Surgery', and 'Waltz For An Insomniac'.
|
|
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
~ Delays
~ The Hours
With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). 
Amazon Home