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Released
  
April 24, 2006

Jacket Full of Danger (2006)
  
Sixes & Sevens (2008)

Release date
  
24 April 2006

Length
  
30:22

Artist
  
Adam Green

Label
  
Rough Trade Records

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Genres
  
Anti-folk, Indie rock, Blues rock, Baroque pop

Similar
  
Adam Green albums, Indie rock albums

Adam green pay the toll


Jacket Full of Danger is Adam Green's fourth solo album, released in 2006. It revisits the string-laden melodrama of his second album Friends of Mine, mostly abandoning the uptempo country folk sound of his previous release, Gemstones.

Contents

Lyrically, the album explores the same mournful terrain as Gemstones with Green's familiar obsession with drugs, surrealism and failed relationships.

The album's cover art is an illustrated photograph by American artist Galen Pehrson and was featured in ArtForum 10.6Vol-9UK The image depicts Green with a suite of illustrated characters, each character refers or symbolizes a social theorist, philosopher, or semiotician: Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, and most notable Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan engaged in a "dance".

In the UK, the album was preceded by the single Nat King Cole which also features artwork by Pehrson.

Track listing

  1. "Pay the Toll" – 2:15
  2. "Hollywood Bowl" – 1:33
  3. "Vultures" – 2:02
  4. "Novotel" – 1:39
  5. "Party Line" – 2:17
  6. "Hey Dude" – 1:39
  7. "Nat King Cole" – 2:32
  8. "C Birds" – 2:04
  9. "Animal Dreams" – 1:48
  10. "Cast a Shadow" – 1:57
  11. "Drugs" – 2:03
  12. "Jolly Good" – 2:01
  13. "Watching Old Movies" – 2:00
  14. "White Women" – 2:59
  15. "Hairy Women" – 1:33

"Cast a Shadow" is an interpretation of the Beat Happening song of the same name.

Personnel

  • Adam Green - voice, guitar, tuba on 9
  • Steven Mertens - bass except on 12, 15
  • Bill Moulten - bass on 12, 15
  • Joan Wasser - cello
  • Parker Kindred - drums
  • Chris Isom - guitar
  • Emily Lazar - mastering
  • Nathan Brown - organ (Wurlitzer), piano
  • Dan Myers - recording, mixing
  • David Gold - viola on 2
  • Antoine Silverman, Lorenza Ponce - violin
  • Jane Scarpantoni - violin, strings arrangement
  • Songs

    1Pay the Toll2:16
    2Hollywood Bowl1:33
    3Vultures2:02

    References

    Jacket Full of Danger Wikipedia


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