Adem
Takes

For some time now, crafting a cover album has become a common trend among a large number of contemporary independent artists. Just think of Cat Power, first with "The Covers Record" and now with "Jukebox," Vetiver, Bonnie "Prince" Billy: all of them reinterpreting tracks from every era and style, some in an unconvincing manner, others in a personal and absolutely mesmerizing way. This is the case with Adem, already a prodigy child with Fridge alongside Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet).
His third album is a collection of twelve reinterpretations of roughly "recent" artists like Bjork, dEUS, PJ Harvey, Bedhead (whose "Bedside Table" becomes a sweet and sorrowful Appalachian song), Low ("Laser Beam" gains even more fervor, shedding down to the bone and soaring). The instrumentation is simple: voice, acoustic guitar, piano. Everything is occasionally punctuated by synthetic percussion, as happens in what can be considered the pinnacle of the entire disc: the treatment Our artist gives to "Loro", originally by Pinback, is excellent, with those choruses splitting under the base melody, the discreet rhythmic backdrop, and a lucid and perfect atmosphere. This is what Adem offers us: a delicate reconstruction, without distorting the originals, but trying to grasp their essence, their heart, to finally bring it to the surface, bare.