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Like them, his albums (even the popular Heartbreaker) could be a bit flat in places, although the brilliant highs on the even patchier Jacksonville City Nights always made up for it enough to keep us listening.
Cardinology is nothing if not consistent, with thicker instrumentation and easy melodies, and once it starts playing and settles into its rather traditional groove, Adams surprises you so little that you need to concentrate to get the most out of it. But listening's worth doing. Intense, prayerful, regretful, dark and sometimes almost... wise, Cardonology's got a lot to offer.
Yes, it's very good. It's just a pity it's not a bit more interesting. With some exceptions: The dramatic opening track of "Born into a Light" the grey-day acoustic self-examination of "Crossed out Name", and the mournful prayer for under standing of "Natural Ghost" will stick in your mind, and force you to attend carefully to the rest, in search of moments that almost, but don't quite, rise on a real melody to escape a beautiful musical mire.
Cardinology is nothing if not consistent, with thicker instrumentation and easy melodies, and once it starts playing and settles into its rather traditional groove, Adams surprises you so little that you need to concentrate to get the most out of it. But listening's worth doing. Intense, prayerful, regretful, dark and sometimes almost... wise, Cardonology's got a lot to offer.
Yes, it's very good. It's just a pity it's not a bit more interesting. With some exceptions: The dramatic opening track of "Born into a Light" the grey-day acoustic self-examination of "Crossed out Name", and the mournful prayer for under standing of "Natural Ghost" will stick in your mind, and force you to attend carefully to the rest, in search of moments that almost, but don't quite, rise on a real melody to escape a beautiful musical mire.
