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| Absolutepunk |
 “I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it’s good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.” – Peter Bradley AdamsPeter Bradley Adams co-founded and fronted the AAA-radio darlings EastMountainSouth, a band much revered by Cameron Crowe, who featured them in his movie Elizabethtown. The group also garnered the attention of influential radio station KCRW, who played the band quite frequently. Peter co-produced the group's debut (and only) album with Mitchell Froom, and the duo toured extensively opening for Lucinda Williams, Tracy Chapman, and performed their final show at the Hollywood Bowl opening for Lyle Lovett and Shelby Lynn. Now as a solo artist, Traces marks his third full-length, following on the heels of his critically-lauded debut Gather Up and its equally praised successor Leavetaking. As a whole, Traces is incredibly subdued, with many of the orchestrations featuring just him and a guitar, or him and a piano. A cello, tenor guitar, mandolin, violin and a wealth of female harmonies are interspersed throughout, but for the most part, this is a disc that focuses on Adams, his words and his voice. This implicit devotion to simplicity is what makes Traces so profound. His well-worn croon has the familiarity of threadbare jeans or an oversized sweatshirt and his supple acoustic textures have the kind of no-frills, no-nonsense charm that could find a fan in an eight-year-old or eighty-year-old....full text |
| Blogcritics |
| In my opinion some of the most talented song-writers are the ones that can say not what we are all able to say, but what we feel and are unable to express. To write a song you must have experienced, in every aspect, the words that are performed to really make it sincere. This is not a new realization for anyone; I am sure. However, some artists really have a knack for expressing the story they are trying to tell. It all comes down to experience; you cannot write a love song if you have never been hurt, you cannot write an organic song based on fiction. No one will believe it, and further more no one will feel it. Peter Bradley Adams touches on all aspects of phenomenal song-writing; through writing his songs Peter has a strong sense of muted passion he portrays through every word. You can feel what he has experienced and trace it through to a mutual feeling of your own. It is about listening to a song that someone else has written, and knowing that you are not alone, to know that someone else out there understands what you are trying to say. One of my favorite quotes I believe explains this best: “The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.” The first song I heard by Peter Bradley Adams was “The Longer I Run” the first track off of Leavetaking (2008). I was completely immersed at first listen, the entire album left nothing else to leave with, but emotions and a pursuit for more of his music. Fortunately I did not have to wait long, as Peter’s new album Traces has shortly preceded, being released for online purchase September 29, 2009 and October 10, 2009 in stores. It is refreshingly comparable to Leavetaking, in which I am happy to report that comparison....full text |
| Spacemusic136 |
| Peter Bradley Adam’s spacious vocals and soothing acoustic guitar make for a good combination. The dark piano on From the Sky is some of the most soothing and beautifully mixed I have ever heard. Adam’s sings both about “finding his way back home” (”Family Name”) and also asking those he loves to “take the road that leads you home” and that he’ll be “waiting there for you.” However, Adam’s also speaks of a “dream” which “will not let him go” (in the title Track “Traces of You”). One of the album’s main themes seems to beckon us home (wherever that may be), but at the same time the difficulty of reaching this place (whether we consider home a metaphorical or physical place). He speaks most frankly about this struggle in the track I Cannot Settle Down where he says “I must keep travelin’ on / to find the place that I belong.” He then speaks of how he might not ever find it. The deeply personal and transparent lyrics that Adams reminds of a kind of John Prine without the country/bluegrass twinge. His lyrics also sometimes share a spiritual quality like that of Leeland or Phil Wickham. He speaks to angels in the song Darkening Sky begging not to lose the one he loves. The album speaks both of loss and His voice reminds of a mix between Josh Radin and the Blind Pilot....full text |
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