Adam Green — Gemstones

Gemstones

Rough Trade

Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack)

03/01/2005 12:05pm

After the vast improvement between his too-rough debut Garfield and his charming sophomore solo album Friends Of Mine, ex-Moldy Peaches dude Adam Green proves with Gemstones that a good schtick can’t last long. Whereas Friends Of Mine shone with a mix of naiveté and decent songwriting, Gemstones is the tedious cross between art rock and children’s music. Going for a Ween meets They Might Be Giants vibe, Green’s songs about sex, drugs and a variety of nonsense topics set to sing-song rhythms and ill-advised experiments in bar-room blues should have never made it off his bedroom four-track.

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