View basket “Konoyo” has been added to your basket. 2023's picks Drops Steven Adams SKU: FIKA098LP Barcode: 5057998043675 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fika Recordings Released Date: 10th November 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “A national musical treasure” The Guardian Steven Adams, formerly of The Broken Family Band releases new album DROPS on Fika Recordings in November 2023. Since calling time on TBFB at the height of their success, Adams has released half a dozen albums under various names (Singing Adams, Steven James Adams, Steven Adams & The French Drops), his witty, incisive lyrics and melodic sensibilities taking in DIY indie rock, folky introspection, and off-kilter pop hooks. Originally from South Wales, Adams now lives in East London. “Every record I’ve made has been in a hurry of some sort” says Adams of his new album, “and with this one I took my time”. DROPS is the first album to be credited to him as a solo artist since 2016’s Old Magick, his first new music since 2020, and his noisiest record to date. Armed with a new batch of material, he began by upping sticks to the Welsh countryside to experiment with drummer Daniel Fordham and bassist David Stewart – both formerly of psych oddballs The Drink. The trio then took the songs to Big Jelly, a converted chapel on the south coast, with co-producer Simon Trought (Comet Gain, Johnny Flynn, The Wave Pictures) to lay down the basic tracks for DROPS. Eschewing a full band set up (“I wanted to concentrate on one thing at a time”), recording sessions in East London followed with Laurie Earle (Absentee) on guitar and Michael Wood (Hayman Kupa Band, Michaelmas) on keyboards. Adams then took the recordings home and to the French countryside, to work alone. “I finally got my head around home recording in 2020, while things were a bit quiet. Once I worked out how to record things I realised I didn’t have to think about time. I could let the songs evolve and change once we had the basic tracks down. After a while I started to think of them as paintings; trying something one morning, painting over it in the afternoon and attempting something completely different… it was about enjoying the process, making some bangers, playing around… and giving Simon the producer a mess to sort out when it came to mixing the record”. Whenever Tom from Fika Recordings checked in to see how the album was progressing Adams would reply, “it’s taking ages but it’ll sound like it was recorded in an afternoon”. The result is a dynamic and spirited collection of songs, with Adams’s love of 90/00s US underground rock (Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich is a fan) to the fore. DROPS is a sonically compelling piece of work: from bleak/exultant opener Out to Sea and the motorik Living in the Local Void to the weirdly funereal Fascists (where Adams imagines the “little skip in our steps” that we’ll have upon outliving some baddies), and Day Trip’s psychedelia in miniature. There are also moments of tenderness: the avalanche of empathy on closing track Cheap Wine Sad Face, and I Tried to Keep it Light’s “worse things could happen… I don’t know how, but give me time”. Adams says: “I’m preoccupied by the passing of time and the way it affects how we feel. This record is about time and bewilderment and trying to make sense of things”. “…astonishing tenderness in its simplicity … brilliant lyrics.” Q Magazine “…the tunes are instant and uplifting, but the real wallop comes from the lyrical imagery.” The Guardian “…barbed modern life chronicles.” UNCUT Artist Steven Adams Genre Rock And Pop Label Fika Recordings Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Out To Sea Living In The Local Void Moderation Heads Keep Rolling Making Holes Pas Moi Holiday Casual Fascists I Tried To Keep It Light Day Trip Cheap Wine Sad Face Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Teenage Fanclub Shadows Rock And Pop | PeMa | 1LP, 7" Released 14th December 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Teenage Fanclub Shadows £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PeMa SKU: PEMA7LP Formats: 1LP, 7" Released Date: 14th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Olivia Rodrigo GUTS (spilled) Deluxe Splatter Version Rock And Pop | Geffen | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th July 2024 £35.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Olivia Rodrigo GUTS (spilled) Deluxe Splatter Version £35.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Geffen SKU: 6504586 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th July 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ultravox Lament Rock And Pop | Chrysalis | 180g, 1LP Released 19th January 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ultravox Lament £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Chrysalis SKU: 5060516090105 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alan Parsons Project I Robot Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released 13th April 2016 £73.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Alan Parsons Project I Robot £73.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: MFSL245455 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 13th April 2016 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Panic! 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