As I turned on and tuned into ADAM GREEN'S album ‘Sixes and Sevens’, his voice became familiar to me. I then realised that this familiarity was rooted right back in my childhood – when The Muppets was the highlight of my school week.
Adam’s voice echoes that of Kermit the Frog and I needn’t even close my eyes to imagine it. Aside from Adam having a surname that reflects the puppet frog, Adam’s album seems to have intended to be a more mature snapshot of his musical ability and background, however, I still felt as though his music was trying too hard to be taken seriously rather than admitting its corny and youthful essence that bleeds through his music into some of his song titles such as ‘Cannot Get Sicker’.
The reason I feel that the album lacked class, style and potential success is Green’s failure to recognise that a lack of class in music is okay. Just admit it. Don’t try and smooth out something that makes you yourself as an artist. With naïve blues jazz snapshots and the unique merge of pan flutes with the trumpet in ‘You Get So Lucky’ Green definitely has something. Old voice, young mind; big ambitions, little impact in the case of his new album, ‘Sixes and Sevens’.
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This young singer has talent but is in need of some careful musical direction. Seems he'd better call his mate Carl Barat, Dirty Pretty Things lead-singer, for some musical nurturing and ideas for a way ahead.
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