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Album Review: Adam Foster – Dirty City


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    Adam Foster, a Nashville based singer, writer and musician, aims to be a powerhouse talent who can sing his heart out, his combination of minimalist blues and free-floating rock and roll sounds is exciting and thrilling for the Americana audience.

    His new album, Dirt City, explores the uniqueness and oddities of his current hometown. Hailing from Nashville, Adam Foster presents a lovely rumination on life lived on the edgier side of the beautiful city. The rhythms of perpetual warmth pulse beneath the acoustic melodies, a few gentle, a few assertive, and he still delivers with depth and delicacy.

    The self-titled opening track is dedicated to a familiar way of life, where nostalgic reminders mingle with the comforting residue of what still is. Adam Foster knows there are many stories yet to be told from the back alleys and run down buildings of the South Side. And this album aims to achieve that, especially with a song like “Hotel Nowhere” where he turns his narrative over and over in his hands, and he relays his findings, tactile and intangible.

    On “Next Stop Nevado” Adam Foster’s music mirrors his lyrical themes. Though he remains devoted to sparse arrangements of guitars and drums, this song begins to veer into more adventurous territory. Musical elements are deployed sparingly and selectively, a sprinkle of salt to draw new flavor from familiar sound.

    Adam Foster also makes sure the tempos vary, too, from raucous stomping to slow, plaintive fingerpicking—as if he’s stretching, sprinting or slowing down. On “Carolina” he spins out a song of electric uplift and dreamy solitude while on “Pretty Face” and “Talk To Me (Sarah’s song)” he wrestles with love and all its up and downs. Either way, he happily exists as an outsider among outsiders, and he weaves the joy he finds in introspection into the nature of his songs.

    This album is rich with observations of the world beyond Adam Foster’s window view. This elusiveness, a sly synthesis of past and present as well as acoustic and electric instruments, is the key to his music and why it endures.

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