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Review: 'Stafford, Adam'
'Taser Revelations'   

-  Album: 'Taser Revelations' -  Label: 'Song, By Toad'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '14th March 2014'

Our Rating:
There’s something both traditional and extremely unconventional about Adam Stafford’s music. Following on from the highly acclaimed ‘Walls Collapse’ (2014), ‘Taser Revelations’ finds Stafford delving into a veritable stylistic smorgasbord. spanning brooding country with chilly synths, minimalist Krautrock, clanking sheet metal, and bedroom soul, there’s some extremely unusual percussion going on. What’s more, he’s as likely to throw in a crunching guitar break as he is a collage of samples.

Kettle drum and Vangelis-like keys waft around the Calypso-pop of ‘Phantom Billions’, while he comes on like Prince fronting Band of Susans on the downbeat yet compellingly gorgeous ‘Atheist Money’. But then, ‘Railway Trespassers’ sounds more like Test Dept, and the title track models its guitar sound on ‘A Forest’ by The Cure to cast a reverb-heavy atmosphere of bleakness.

If Stafford’s good at one thing, it’s doing the unexpected. If he’s good at two things, the second is making everything gel into some extremely listenable dark pop songs, making ‘Taser Revelations’ a truly stunning work.

Adam Stafford Online

  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Stafford, Adam - Taser Revelations