Minor Love

Adam Green

Release Date: 11th Jan, 2010
Label: Rough trade
Genre: Indie

Green’s sixth solo album to date, to be supported by a UK tour. The former Moldy Peaches member has created a tender sounding album, full of laid-back indie-rock. While sounding less than urgent, with most of the melodies not being head-bangers, this works in Green’s favour - the simple-yet-striking ‘Breaking Locks’ is an instant favourite. ‘Bathing Birds’ even features what is apparently an oboe, and ‘Cigarette Burns Forever’ could almost have been a hard-up country song by Johnny Cash. While delicate and sometimes beautiful, Green sounds a little too much like The Strokes at a jam session to really make an impact further than his immediate fan-base.

Reviewed by Pete Muscutt

About The Artist

Adam Green

Artist Homepage

Adam Green (born May 28, 1981 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. Green attended Emerson College briefly in 1998 before leaving to concentrate on his music, going on to co-found the anti folk group The Moldy Peaches with Kimya Dawson. In 2004 The Moldy Peaches went on hiatus and both Green and Dawson embarked on solo careers. Green released several albums on Rough Trade Records. Among his better known songs are "Jessica" (about singer Jessica Simpson), "Novotel", "Friends of Mine", "Dance with Me", "Carolina" and "Emily", and, in Britain, his cover of The Libertines track "What a Waster". Prior to Jacket Full of Danger in 2006, all of Green's albums had been released on the 22nd of the month. His latest album was released on March 18, 2008 and is titled Sixes & Sevens. Titles include "Morning After Midnight", "Twee Twee Dee", and "Drowning Head First", the latter a duet between Green and his girlfriend. In January 2008, The Moldy Peaches began having a resurgence in popularity, due to their music being included in the hit indie film Juno.

View all

26 Comments

conditionals 21 Mar 2011

This one is pretty great. All Adam Green is pretty great. I will have to disagree with the comment below me though... on a scale of 'pretty great'-ness, 6s & 7s is the worst album.
broesmeli 05 Jan 2011

I think it's worse than Friends, Gemstones, Garfield and 6s & 7s ...but it's still a lot better than Jacket.
shirleybeans 27 Dec 2010

WTF. This album is amazing. Blows my mind how it doesnt get the response it deserves. A CRIME.
sirianmorgan 31 Oct 2010

I think it is my favourite. I can't explain why.
treasurehunts 02 Sep 2010

I am in love with this whole album.
Hannes_Rannes 29 Apr 2010

IMO best album since Friends Of Mine.
the_chekt 27 Apr 2010

The Pitchfork review is bullshit. This album is incredible.
fixthegreat 09 Apr 2010

This album was a joke compared to his others
AlanLaidlaw 16 Mar 2010

well, well what do we have here...
Shmadt 14 Mar 2010

I love this album!
HighRatingMusic 12 Mar 2010

'Minor Love' rated at 60% http://highrating.blogspot.com/2010/03/adam-green-minor-love.html
scary_rabbit 25 Feb 2010

Found here, if you're interested in more (Dutch though) reviews like this: http://www.viceland.com/nl/v5n2/htdocs/records-nl-307.php
scary_rabbit 25 Feb 2010

It's amazing. I also read a great review of it. Translated from Dutch into English: "Despite my aversion concerning short people, I've got the biggest love for Adam Green. More than anything I'd want to buy him and put him next to my bed, and if I got a little sad, I would ask him if he'd sing me a song. At a moment like that, a modest back-up band would appear out of the shadows of my little room and Adam would sing sweet songs with cynical lyrics for me until I fell asleep, happily, after all."
johnnyvolume 17 Feb 2010

this is such a great album
narut13 11 Feb 2010

His new album is really good.
nicoomotion 09 Feb 2010

gotta buy it!
anakin45 28 Jan 2010

[vidéo] – Boss Inside de Adam Green : http://atticawebzine.free.fr/blog/?p=2282
sesarsesar 22 Jan 2010

no le agarré la mano aun, ya vendran las pajas con este disco
kmonoarfa 07 Jan 2010

nice album! Love it <3<3<3