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"adee schreiber – Regardless of Good
If you didn’t know what to expect when you first listened to Regardless of Good, I might predict you would be …surprised… by what you heard.
“adee's untrained songsingings is generic songswriting pushing the 4 guitar chords everyone knows said the many words everyone's heard sings a voice only a mother could
love”
This is what adee describes her music to be. Now, obviously, artists all have ‘disagreements’ over their own work, but, maybe her description is brutally truthful in a way few people would ever say.
I think there are a couple of things that should be gotten out of the way before we start: adee’s voice is what might normally be described as ‘not good’, and her songs are peculiar to say the least.
But let’s get over ourselves. Let’s get over manufactured pop. Let’s get over things that are quite simply plain and boring. Now that we’ve opened our minds a little bit I think we can appreciate and take in ‘Regardless of Good’ for what it really is: brilliant.
In a day and age where to be faceless, average and ‘normal’ is (for some reason) desirable, adee breaks the mould in a refreshing and inspirational way. Armed only with guitar and vocal cords (and lap steel later on (see ‘spaceman’)) adee does what many of us wish we could do: She sings from her heart, for others as much as herself, and she sings without caring how it sounds. And it’s because of this degree of not caring, of being herself, which makes the record something you’ll never forget. From the shockingly aggressive introduction of ‘you fucking bitch’ to the upbeat proclamations of ‘jill (fun of 21)’, Regardless of Good is a dive into a world you wish was inside your head.
It’s hard to pick highlights from the album for the same reason it’s hard to pick who your favorite son or daughter is. If you take the time to get to know songs (maybe even converse with them, it’s up to you) you will be torn when someone you lent the CD to asks “so what’s your favorite track?”
For me, the first song that I expect to answer the question with is ‘Spaceman’, with its inspired insertion of lap steel and Cat Power-esque vocals. But then I think, and I remember the flowing melody of ‘gonna getchoo getchoo’ or the ironically placed double track of ‘sex (with its somewhat frightening lyrics)’ and ‘sexless sunday night’.
I think that if you happen to come across any of adee’s work, you should be prepared to listen to it and listen into it, and to appreciate it for being fun and serious, happy and sad and just generally pretty cool, snazzy lo-fi."
review by chris mcgarvie
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"Adee is a wonderfully talented and moving artist, that doesn't make the mistake of copying her influnces;she is, on the contrary, inspired by their originality and creates her own distinct and unique sound. As explained in the title of "Regardless of Good," she is not playing to impress or writing what people generally want to hear, but rather playing what she wants to play and what she feels. It just so happens that what she feels and wants to play are exactly what anyone with an ear for good, honest, and heart-felt songs want to hear"
-kevin
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