3/26/2021

post-punk/alternative band, Adult Books share sophomore album 'Grecian Urn'

LA BASED POST-PUNK/ALTERNATIVE BAND
ADULT BOOKS 
SHARE SOPHOMORE ALBUM 
GRECIAN URN
Adult Books employ new wave patterns while channeling The Smiths and New Order.”
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"Warmer and zestier than ever."
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“Sonic heat.”
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"Deserving of your attention and praise."
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FOR FANS OF: The Cure, Wire/Colin Newman, The Wipers, Mission of Burma, New Order, Modern English

Today, Adult Books share their sophomore LP Grecian Urn via Taxi Gauche RecordsGrecian Urn features the previously released single “Florence” inspired by some time singer Nick Winfrey spent in Florence, Italy, several years back. The new record also features the self-titled album track “Grecian Urn” inspired by a John Keats poem and is the band's first attempt to write a more electronic-leaning song. Although the final version does include live drums and some guitars, the synths are still the foundation, and they allowed the band to approach the song from a more architectural perspective. 

Adult Books is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based writer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Winfrey. With the help of childhood friends Sina Salessi (drums) and Alex Galindo (guitar/synth), Winfrey crafts lyric-driven dark pop gems that recall the hook-heavy guitar work of Johnny Marr, the just-below-the-collar angst of Mission of Burma, and the doomsday bellow of early Echo and the Bunnymen.

After a well-received string of bedroom demos and cassettes, Adult Books released their first full-length album, Running from the Blows​,​ in 2016, trading in their previous home-recorded sounds for a cleaned-up act that allowed Winfrey’s pop-savvy and understated lyrical wit to shine through. Two years of heavy touring followed, after which Winfrey found himself both burned out and uninspired by the business of music.
 
Following a much-needed hiatus, Adult Books is finally ready to share their sophomore LP, ​Grecian Urn​​. Recorded with Jonny Bell (Crystal Antlers) and mastered by Dave Cooley (Ariel Pink, Animal Collective, J Dilla), Grecian Urn​​ was crafted over the course of nearly two years; however, the seeds of the album were sown more than a decade earlier. When sitting down to write ​​Grecian Urn​​, Winfrey revisited old demos, forgotten voice memos, and unfinished fragments of songs to create something wholly new.
 
The end result is a self-assured and intensely personal album that places Winfrey’s evocative images and economic storytelling approach front and center. A loose concept album of sorts, ​Grecian Urn​​draws on classical Mediterranean imagery and mythos as a means of exploring Winfrey’s past traumas and struggles with chronic anxiety. While the album itself may be focused on histories both large and small, Adult Books once again seem to have their eyes set on the future.
ADULT BOOKS
GRECIAN URN
MARCH 26, 2021
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Innocence
2. Receiver
3. Grecian Urn
4. Holiday
5. Florence
 
Side B
1. 100 Dreams
2. Apologies
3. Cassy
4. Adriatics
5. Sparrows On The Razor Wire
Photo Credit: Tony Accosta

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