'I Welcome the Flood' is the new EP from Adam Scott Glasspool and is a stripped back dark delight.
After almost a decade in various bands with fuzzy guitars and deep sounding synths, Adam has gone the route of a haunting singer/songwriter. Five songs, finger picking acoustic guitar and the ocassional beats machine make for a sweet EP with some dark stories therein.
The record starts with 'Hunted' a story of a lost soul of everyday life that concludes "Put your cards on the table and tell me which you believe".
Title song 'I Welcome the Flood' intones, "So far from home with Teardrop playing on the radio" ... "No matter where I go I am always chasing rain" and 'Pace Car Driver' starts "If there is a god he’s got it in for us, I heard you say between mouthfuls of red wine"
'Madison' is a gentle acoustic instrumental before the closing song of the Ep 'All it Ever was' which seems to evoke the end of a relationship over the most gentle of guitar playing.
Talking about the EP Adam says “I had intended for the first EP to be a really simple endeavour when compared to my previous life in bands - one man and a guitar with simple but effective songs. When I came to play them live I realised I‟d put loads of guitars on top of each other and all these effects and stuff. So I had to strip them down even further and get a loop pedal and all sorts of nonsense. With these EP I‟ve tried to keep that in mind, and so these songs are kind of stripped to their basics. I‟m sure when I come to play them live this statement will come back to bite me in the arse.”
Pete
8/11
'I Welcome the Flood‟ will be released on 15th February 2016 on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and "basically anywhere else you can think of". The CD release will be available exclusively through Adam's BandCamp page.
Live Dates:
Feb. 13th - Junkyard Dogs, Brighton (EP Launch Party)
Feb. 15th - Sound, Liverpool
Feb. 16th - Mr. Lynch, Newcastle
Feb. 18th - The Village, London
Feb.19th - The Chequers, London
Feb. 20th - The Art House, Southampton
Feb. 21st - Como Lounge, Oxford
