Iii / Iv
Adams Ryan & The Cardinals
Iii / Iv
Adams Ryan & The Cardinals
In 2007 Ryan Adams and the Cardinals entered Electric Landlady studios on 8th street in NYC and went in for a session intended to last two weeks. Six months and over 60 tracks later, they emerged with the album Easy Tiger. But it was only glimpse into the depth of the work the band had undertaken and the vast amount of material that was recorded.
As the sessions wound around into the deep winter months a double album emerged, a rock record that felt more like a hybrid of all the records that the band had mutually consumed as kids from influences as wide as Kiss and The Cars.
Originally hidden away in the vault while the band hit the road to support Easy Tiger, and now for the first time here in its entirety is the Cardinals second double-album concept rock opera about the 80’s, ninjas, cigarettes, sex and pizza. Enjoy Volume III/IV by Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, from the turning point in the classic line up of the band featuring Catherine Popper on bass (her last with the band), Neal Casal on guitar and vocals (his first with the band), Brad Pemberton on the drums, Jon Graboff on the Steel Guitar (as well as a few other things) and Jamie ‘The Candyman’ Candiloro on piano and synths, here producing again as well. A limited edition coloured double vinyl will also be released in the new year.
Disk 1
- Breakdown Into The Resolve
- Dear Candy
- Wasteland
- Ultraviolet Light
- Stop Playing With My Heart
- Lovely And Blue
- Happy Birthday
- Kisses Start Wars
- The Crystal Skull
Users Disk 2
No
Numbers
Gracie
Icebreaker
Sewers At The Bottom Of The Wishing Well
Typecast
Star Wars
My Favorite Song
P.S.
Death And Rats
Kill The Lights
Review
Declan Murphy, Music Specialist, Readings St Kilda
It would seem retirement does not suit Mr Adams very well although strictly speaking III/IV does not represent a fully-fledged return. Culled from the 60 (yes 60!) odd tracks recorded for 2007’s Easy Tiger sessions, this double album once again displays the prolific nature for which he is so equally reviled and revered.
For the record, I fall into the second camp. As per usual with Adams’s work, there is some filler here, but what really stands out is the undeniable quality of the majority of the 21 tracks and the versatility of his crack band the Cardinals. Anyone expecting weepy ballads, beware, as this is most certainly a rock record – and rock it most certainly does. What will he do next?
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