Adam Green - 'Emily' (Rough Trade Records)
3/5
By: JJ Florio
If music could find its motion picture equivalent then Led Zeppelin would be the bloated, but compelling, 'Lord of the Rings', Blink 182 the dimwit trash of 'Jackass The Movie' and Ronan Keating anything with that soppy tart Hugh Grant in it. 'Emily', the latest from self-appointed crooning troubadour Adam Green's new album 'Gemstones', is a Marx Brothers film; unmistakably New York, incurably witty and really rather silly.
Green's trademark wryness is out in force with an ode that charts a history of failed relationships starting with a marriage proposal to the dubiously underage Emily with the line, 'Now I've got those cookies that your mother sent, and I've got permission from the government,' delivered with a deadpan smack that would make Jack Dee cringe. All this set to a fairly unremarkable, lo-fi NYC blues drenched accompaniment that is executed with a quirky musical touch that mirrors the droll lyrical content. A strong sense of the wonderfully ridiculous, we're sure Groucho Marx himself would approve, for this is a man who once said, 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.' Joyful nonsense.
Artists in this article: Adam Green
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