Eve Adams - Nowhere Now
In the time since her wonderful 2021 album Metal Bird, Eve Adams has made a home for herself out in the open plains of the American Southwest, and quietly set about writing what she calls her "eulogy for the American Dream", and what we find as one of the year's most captivating records.
Recently announced for an August release on the ever-excellent Basin Rock label (Julie Byrne, Nadia Reid) the focus of the American Dust LP is far more rooted in traditional storytelling than what's come before, and it makes for something that is at once haunting, deeply personal and always riveting.
Opening track and lead single ‘Nowhere Now’ draws you deep into this new world she's created - one of sun-scorched lands, a layer of dust sitting on everything. An encapsulation of the album’s many meandering themes and references, it's a deliberation on the intricacies of heartbreak. “Stop saying I’m pretty, it makes me feel so mundane,” Eve sings, her voice a character unto itself, scarred by the weight of the passing years.
Eve is joined on American Dust by Canadian musician Bryce Cloghesy, aka Military Genius of Crack Cloud, who plays throughout and also helped produce the album. The scope of the LP’s narrative is reflected in the radiant sweep of the playing where gentle piano and guitar are lifted by gorgeous strings that drift through the album, lending the songs a woozy sense of romanticism; a collaboration with Gamaliel Traynor (Cello) and caroline’s Oliver Hamilton (Violin).
“The same swirling dust that clung to the covered wagons of my ancestors as they crossed the Great American Desert is the same dust my great-great-grandmother swept off her porch during the Dust Bowl of 1936 in Oklahoma, is the same dust that blows in through the cracks in my windows here in the desert, carrying stories from a time long gone.
It’s not just dust—it’s American Dust, the kind that settles into the bones of a family and never leaves. I think about that dust as a symbol of the passage of time. I hope this album will be part of that same current, carrying forward for the next generations of my family to find."
Listen to 'Nowhere Now' on GFP here
American Dust is released 22 August, via Basin Rock
Pre-order available here
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