New Adventures is a snapshots-from-the-road record in the tradition of Neil Young’s Time Fades Away and Jackson Browne’s Running on Empty. Like them, it captures a where-am-I-and-why ambience, even with its concert and sound-check material reworked in post-tour sessions. This is very much a transitional album, its feel somewhere between the chamber-folk sweep of Out of Time and Automatic for the People_and the distortion-pedal party that raged on _Monster. It’s the work of a band pretty near its peak consolidating familiar sounds and styles while tinkering with the edges. The album was recorded during and after the tour in support of Monster_in 1995. The material on the album mixed the acoustic, country rock, feel of much of _Out of Time and Automatic for the People with the rock sound of Monster and_Life’s Rich Pageant_.