Adam & the Amethysts’ “Dreaming”
There are frankly not many music blogs that consistently impress with their combined writing and music standards. Said the Gramophone is the one blog by which we are consistently humbled. We feel compelled to sing their praises in particular today given their recent post entitled, “The Answer to Our Current Crisis,“ which you can read HERE. Between the prose and the pros of the offered song (Adam & the Amethysts’ “Dreaming“), guaranteed uplift will ensue. Dreaming is quickly rising on our Songs of the Year list.
Check out and download Montreal’s Adam & the Amethysts‘ songs, Dreaming and Prophecy, below, and then go over to Exclaim.ca and stream the band’s impending new sophomore album, “Flickering Flashlights.” And then go HERE to buy the album.
The similarity between the Amethysts’ and Appleby’s album (below) covers is duly noted.
I’m 58 years old. I love Dreaming. It must be the incredible mix of those Spector-like effects, combined with just everything else in. Super creativity!
[…] We were recently introduced to Montreal band, Adam & the Amethysts, and have since fallen heavily for their musical purple reign. They recently released their second album, “Flickering Flashlight,” and it has been quickly rising up our favorite 2011 albums list. The album is a masterful mix of pop styles that limns many influences (from Girls’ Spector-echo-pop, to 60s’ farfisa organ, to R&B, to plucky folk), but adds hale harmonies, handclaps, chamber touches (cello, clarinet), found sounds (spoons, bottles, bells, etc.), and a waltz or two. Simplicity has never been more complex. And all as recorded in leader Adam Waito’s apartment no less, and no more. Lyrically, the songs movingly capture Waito’s lived-in life between his decampment from the tundra of Thunder Bay, Ontario (a motherlode of amethyst gems–hence the band name) to metropolitan Montreal, and the inevitable remigrations. […]