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ADEM - Love & Other Planets
| Crud Magazine | | I don’t know which I love more, the album itself or writer who describes the album as ‘a must for anybody that likes their experimentalism with a touch of poignancy and introspection’. Now I don’t know about you, but when somebody asks how you like your experimentalism, I rarely have the either the nerve or strength of conviction to offer, ‘with a touch of poignancy and introspection’. Same thing with toast. If someone asks me how I prefer my toast, I’m more likely to shrug my shoulders and grunt than I am to say ‘with a smile, a touch of kindliness and a good dose of sincerity’....full text |
| | Whisperin & Hollerin | | Sometime FRIDGE member ADEM ILHAN’S debut album “Homesongs” was a quiet, intimate and fragile delight which made a mockery of the expected ‘electronica’ album he was expected to make by dint of his association with Fridge/ Four Tet compatriot Kieran Hebden. It was later awkwardly pigeonholed as a ‘nu-folk’ album by most reviewers, but really its’ acoustic and literally home-recorded songs were things of beauty in their own right which inhabited their own special space....full text |
| | Times Online | | Space informed much of Adem Ilhan’s debut Homesongs — the space between lovers or the barriers that friends place between themselves. This time the same themes are couched in more cosmological terms. Ilhan’s fondness for modern electronica lends a childlike wonder to his acoustic ruminations....full text |
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