Rock N Roll Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Of Americana can benefit from a bit of judicious editing and polishing. While it preserves a few strong tunes and offers an insight into Adams'Ĭreative process, it also makes clear that even the rising wunderkind Sounds like a bunch of demos, which of course is just what it is, and
Of the other songs on the album sound like rough drafts rather thanĬompleted works, and Demolition seems to lack a strong thematic or structural center. The heading-off-the-rails rocker "Starting to Hurt." But more than a few Appropriately enough, Demolition sounds less like "the third Ryan AdamsĪlbum" than a collection of stray tunes - some of which are very good,Įspecially the lazy summer vibe of "Tennessee Sucks," the up-tempoĪcoustic twang of "Chin Up, Cheer Up," the winsome "Cry on Demand," and
Instead Adams cherry-picked these sessions into a 13-track collection, Demolition. Material wasn't in the best interest of either artist or label, and Sensibly enough, AdamsĪnd his record company decided that releasing such a huge flood of Versions of all the songs from the Strokes' debut disc, Is This It).
The much talked about but to date unheard four-track recordings of blues Musicians and producers within the space of a year (not even counting If one believes what one reads in New Musical Express, AdamsĬut about four albums' worth of material during sessions with various He wrote the afternoon of the show, and after his 2001 album, Gold,įinally gave him an audience outside the small but rabidly enthusiasticĪlt-country scene, the very prolific Adams seemed to waste no time laying down as many songs as he possibly could. Has played solo acoustic gigs that consisted almost entirely of songs
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