Singing Adams - Everybody Friends Now (Records Records Records)
2/5
By: Matt Cole
I sometimes wonder if I expect too much from music. Every new CD I break out of the pack is heavy with the weight of expectation. The moments before I hit play reek of potential for this album to be the one; the collection of songs I’ve been waiting to hear my whole life. Is it ok for an album to be just... OK? Does the fact that the sound dribbling from my speakers doesn’t make me vomit or cause me to plunge biros into my ear canals until they pierce the tympanic membrane, warrant a chirpy thumbs up of a review?
Everybody Friends Now by Singing Adams does not cause this reviewer to spontaneously eject the contents of his stomach over his keyboard. It’s not offensive or bad, the musicianship is perfectly good and as far as jangly, boy meets girl pop goes, the lyrics are wryly amusing and delivered with an appealing dryness. Everybody Friends Now is OK. It’s not bad. It just doesn’t contain enough originality, passion or good old fashioned balls for me to want to listen to it again.
Oh, hold on! There is one track at the end called ‘Married Woman’ that actually is shit. A sphincter twitchingly mortifying duet so ill conceived it actually resembles an overly earnest Flight Of The Concords parody chronicling Jemaine’s attempt to seduce a middle aged housewife in a supermarket.
So to summarise, Everybody Friends Now by Singing Adams is 10 tracks of perfectly pleasant adequateness topped off by one gently steaming rivulet of aural effluent that may or may not be a joke. The rest though, perfectly lovely.
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