Adam Torres – Gold Flake Paint premieres Pearls to Swine album stream with exclusive track by track – album
GOLD FLAKE PAINT RUNS ALBUM STREAM AND EXCLUSIVE TRACK BY TRACK
http://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/first-listen-adam-torres-pearls-to-swine-lp/
FROM NEW ALBUM PEARLS TO SWINE
Pre-release Stream
Due out on 9 September via Fat Possum
“Some of the purest, restorative, most unburdened music imaginable.” Mojo 4*
“Torres’ fragile, reverberating falsetto is the focus of his ornate country-folk-blues.” Mojo
“Just a minute into hearing his voice I knew I was listening to a unique and astonishing talent. Adam Torres’ voice is high, yearning and captivating.” – NPR Music
“A still moment of recline, lit by the moon and shaped by a cool prairie wind that brings all manner of yearning and age-old wonder in its tender, graceful breeze.” Gold Flake Paint
“Gorgeous, romantic songwriting with a gilded edge, Adam Torres’ high, keening vocal is set against a simple yet beautifully affecting arrangement.” Clash
Today, Gold Flake Paint premiered a full stream and exclusive track by track guide of Austin-based songwriter Adam Torres’ new album Pearls To Swine ahead of its release on September 9th, 2016 via Fat Possum. The album is also streamed in the States via NPR’s “First Listen”.
The Pearls To Swine album premiere follows the debuts of album tracks “Morning Rain” (Clash premiere), “High Lonesome” (Stereogum premiere; also featured on this month’s edition of NPR’s ‘Heavy Rotation’), “Outlands” (NPR’s All Songs Considered debut), and “Juniper Arms” (NPR Music premiere of its official video). The album is available for pre-order via the Fat Possum webstore and iTunes.
There’s a persisting theme that threads through Adam’s own story as well as Pearls To Swine. Within the cosmos of the album, characters experience a sort of misadventure and persevere, casting light on the way life can lead you down a path that’s far from where you wanted to be. The album maps his complicated history as a songwriter and musician: it’s the sound of someone who discovered the value in his own devotion to music, and how writing and songs are extensions of his own journey. He embeds his own folklore within his high-lonesome sounding, deeply felt and moving brand of folk music.
To truly understand Pearls To Swine and Adam’s arrival on his current path, one has to start at the beginning. In 2006, the then 20-year-old released his idiosyncratic, varied, and beautiful debut album, Nostra Nova. A DIY self-release, the album became a closely-held, sleeper favorite in the close-knit music scene of Athens, OH and over the years grew to a ‘cult classic’-like status. But not long after its release, Adam turned his focus from pursuing music professionally to other interests: he returned to college; traveled, taught, and volunteered in South America; moved to Austin to attend graduate school; and spent two years working for the state of Texas on a project aimed at cleaning the water quality of the Rio Grande River in South Texas. All the while, he never stopped playing music, writing songs, or performing. Having penned more than 100 songs since 2006, Adam quietly released his first music since Nostra Nova in 2012 through DC cassette-label DZ Tapes, which featured tape-recorded demos made inside the apartments he lived in during his time in Ecuador. In 2015, Nostra Nova saw a small reissue and finally achieved its due outside of its underground lore, receiving praise from outlets including The A.V. Club, Stereogum (“a stunner”),VICE (“beautiful, melancholy tunes”), Popmatters, All Music Guide, and Flavorwire.
Adam’s current band consists of Swans’ Thor Harris (on conga drums, vibraphone, and percussion), Aisha Burns (violin), and Dailey Toliver (bass/piano). They will head out on a lengthy US tour alongside Thor & Friends throughout October and November.
Watch video for “Juniper Arms” here
Pearls To Swine track listing:
1. Juniper Arms
2. Some Beast Will Find You By Name
3. High Lonesome
4. Morning Rain
5. Daydream
6. Outlands
7. Where I’m Calling From
8. Mountain River
9. City Limits
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