Adam Green Shares Devendra Banhart's, "Pay The Toll" Cover via Brooklyn Vegan | 'Moping In Style: A Tribute To Adam Green' LP due 12/1

Adam Green and Org Music Share Video For Devendra Banhart's "Pay The Toll" Cover via Brooklyn Vegan "Pay The Toll" Available via all DSP's Friday (11/24) Moping In Style: A Tribute To Adam Green Compilation Due December 1st via Org Music, Available on Double LP Gatefold + CD ft. Performances by Father John Misty, Devendra Banhart, The Libertines, Jenny Lewis, Lou Barlow, Frankie Cosmos, The Lemonheads + More Tickets For Adam Green w/ Strings Tour On Sale Now Photo by Ronja Burkard

PURCHASE & SHARE: Moping In Style: A Tribute to Adam Green Pre-Order WATCH/LISTEN & SHARE: Devendra Banhart - "Pay The Toll" (Adam Green Cover) Pre-Save | Youtube WATCH/LISTEN & SHARE: Vincent Delerm - "Friends of Mine" (Adam Green Cover) Stream | Youtube WATCH/LISTEN & SHARE: Ben Kweller - "Her Father and Her" (Adam Green Cover) Stream | Youtube LISTEN & SHARE: Sean Ono Lennon - "That F*cking Feeling" (Adam Green Cover) Stream This Friday, Adam Green is sharing the final single off of the upcoming album, Moping in Style: A Tribute to Adam Green, Devendra Banhart's cover of "Pay The Toll". Today, the song is available exclusively via an animated lyric video featuring Green's drawings, directed and animated by Tom Bayne, found below. Originally released as an expansive, string-laden ballad on Adam's 2006 record Jacket Full of Danger, Banhart translates the song into is a somber and hushed folk track, emphasizing the sadness found beneath Green's deep-voiced crooning on the original. Discussing his long-standing relationship with Banhart, Green said, "Devendra is my peer in this universe - we were born 2 days apart in 1981 and so our relationship to the signposts of reality is synched up. He has been a huge inspiration to me since I first met him when we were 21 years old. He was the first total artist I met, meaning it felt like he was in tune with all aesthetic principles and was in command of himself as a composer and a visual artist in equal parts. It has always felt to me like Devendra was someone who was prophesied to come along once in a generation - I’m so glad and lucky our worlds collided." Banhart also offered his own recollection of his friendship with Green, "Adam is funny, he really cracks me up… but what’s funnier still is that as oblique and hyper symbolic as his work can get, I have, from the moment I first heard him over 20 years ago, thought “ahh, this makes sense.” … we are true twins and that deep affinity I have for him is one of the things that keeps me goin, it ain’t nepotism when you love the person and the work, it’s just the freakin best. I love Adam." Releasing on Decmeber 1st via Org Music and Capitane Records, three singles from Moping In Style have been released since the record was announced in Mid-October, starting with Sean Ono Lennon's cover of "That F*cking Feeling". The album's singles also feature Ben Kweller's expanded version of "Her Father and Her" and Vincent Delerm's cover of "Friends of Mine". Green recently announced a select series of tour dates titled, Adam Green W/ Strings. Ticket's are on sale now, and the full list of tour dates can be found below! Devendra Banhart - "Pay The Toll" (Adam Green Cover) 'Adam Green with Strings' Tour Dates Mar 7th - Bowery Ballroom - NYC March 27th - Earth Theatre - LONDON March 28th - La Gaite Lyrique - PARIS March 30th - Columbia Theatre - BERLIN This sweeping double album features Father John Misty, Devendra Banhart, The Libertines, Jenny Lewis, Frankie Cosmos, Regina Spektor, The Lemonheads and many other familiar names whose contributions are a testament to Adam Green's position as a fixture of Indie Rock over the last two decades. With song selections culled from Adam's solo albums beginning with 2002's Garfield to his most recent That F*cking Feeling, this tribute album displays Adam's remarkable range as a songwriter.  Widely known as one half of the songwriting duo that is The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green has had a singular influence on his generation of musicians and artists since the early 2000s. From the advent of the early aughts when bands like the Strokes, The Libertines, and The White Stripes began to write the new chapter of indie culture, Adam played an essential role in helping define this new musical and artistic sensibility. With 2003's Friends of Mine, Adam reinvented himself with a new take on songwriting that raised the bar and challenged existing norms, connecting disparate musical influences that included Serge Gainsbourg, Frank Sinatra, and Bob Dylan. With lyricism drawn from both French symbolist poetry and the more recent bricolage stylings of Beck and the Silver Jews, Adam's songs struck a distinct narrative tone. What does Adam mean by, "losing on a Tuesday filled with purposeful disaster?" Or, "Bartholemew, bring me a fork?" From his early songs up through his most recent, fans of Adam Green have reveled in the kaleidoscopic landscape of language he paints. He opens doors of possible meanings with his lyrical imagination and manages to be absurdist without being absurd and louche without being overtly provocative. He threads the very delicate artistic needles of tenderness and humor, kitsch and high art, rock and roll and torch song.  In addition to the Moldy Peaches and his solo albums, Adam Green's impressive body of work includes multiple series of paintings, sculpture, two full length films, and even epic poetry. Not to put too fine a point on it, but to many of his generation - at least to those in the know - Adam's stature has reached almost Warhol-like proportions. At a time where those born in the previous century may rue the loss of what we collectively remember as "the counterculture", Adam Green reminds us all of a more complex and richer era of artistic dialogue. To a younger generation of songwriters, some of whom are featured on Moping in Style, Adam paved the way and pointed the direction. From the dexterous musical hands of its brilliant contributors, we get to hear new takes on Adam's songs and we find that perhaps as much as any other of the aforementioned 20th Century luminaries, Adam Green resembles perhaps even the great George Gershwin, a weaver of melody and a master of song.  ADAM GREEN LINKS Instagram | Youtube | Website | Facebook | Twitter