Out now via Org Music and Capitane Records, Moping In Style is a sweeping double album featuring Father John Misty, Devendra Banhart, Frankie Cosmos, The Libertines, Jenny Lewis, 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.
In celebration of the record's release Green offered this quote: "Hi everyone, it’s Adam Green here. I’m happy to announce the release of Moping In Style: A Tribute To Adam Green - it’s a compilation of many of my favorite artists performing cover versions of my songs. It’s also an album about friendship. Lots of these artists are life-long friends of mine, and we’ve been inspired by each other over the years. I’m very fortunate to know these brilliant people, and I’m honored they saw it fit to record my songs for this collection!"
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. | 
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