About: Adrian P.
Website: http://www.adequacy.net
Email: underthesurface@hotmail.com
Profile:
A scribing veteran of Under The Surface and Comes With A Smile zines, Adrian was born in the year that Elvis died and the Star Wars saga started. Currently residing in the south-west of England, Adrian divides his free-time between the healing complexities of ashtanga and hatha yoga, catching-up on all the books he should have read instead of magazines over the last decade or so, collecting more music than his family knows where to store and writing for DOA.
Current Listening:
• Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk [new album]
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs [new album]
• Panda Bear - Person Pitch [album]
• The Flaming Lips - The Dark Side Of The Moon [new covers album]
• Windsor For The Derby - Against Love [new album]
• Mountain Man - Made The Harbor [new album]
• Steve Wynn - Melting In The Dark/My Midnight/Pick Of The Litter [albums]
Recent Reading:
• George Orwell - Shooting An Elephant And Other Essays [essays collection]
• Michael Roach & Christie McNally - How Yoga Works [novel]
• Kristin Hersh - Rat Girl [memoir]
• I Think I Hate My 45s & Anything But Silence [blogs]
• Charlie Brooker in The Guardian • Mark Steel in The Independent [columns]
Most Recent Posts By Adrian P.:
Total Posts: 242- The Sea And Cake’s Sam Prekop releases third solo album
- Second Language Records unveils Vertical Integration compilation
- The Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show (expanded reissue)
- Fuzzy Lights – Twin Feathers
- Dean & Britta – 13 Most Beautiful… Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#14 (Lazarus Clamp’s Michael Larkin on The Mekons Rock ‘N’ Roll)
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#13 (Dean Wareham on Crazy Rhythms)
- Suzanne Vega – Close-Up Vol 1: Love Songs
- Yo La Tengo – Here To Fall Remixes EP
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#12 (Geoff Farina on 1928 Sessions/Avalon Blues)
- Fuzzy Lights – Helm EP
- FAO#26: Second Language Records (Ghostwriter & Piano Magic)
- Various Artists – Sing Me To Sleep: Indie Lullabies
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#10 (Piano Magic’s Glen Johnson on North Marine Drive)
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#9 (High Places’ Rob Barber on Cause Of Death)
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#8 (David Sheppard on Liberation Music Orchestra)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Tender Prey, The Good Son & Henry’s Dream (CD/DVD reissues)
- FAO#25: Dirtmusic & Fredrik
- Bettie Serveert – Pharmacy Of Love
- High Places – High Places vs. Mankind
- Chris Brokaw and Geoff Farina – The Angel’s Message To Me
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#6 (Billy Coté on Fire Of Love)
- Dollboy – Ghost Stations
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#4 (Chris Brokaw on Metal Box/Second Edition)
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#3 (Chad Taylor on Science Fiction)
- Various Artists – Music And Migration
- FAO#24: Robert A.A. Lowe & Rose Lazar, Scout Niblett & Tindersticks
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#2 (The Real Tuesday Weld’s Stephen Coates on Oedipus Schmoedipus)
- FAO#23: Little Red Rabbit Records (Lazarus Clamp, Anna Kashfi & Last Harbour)
- Chicago Underground Duo – Boca Negra
- Chris Brokaw – VDSQ: Solo Acoustic Volume 3
- Artists-On-Albums: AOA#1 (Owen Tromans on High Beams)
- Samson & Delilah – s/t
- FAO#22: Kraftwerk – 12345678 The Catalogue (reissues)
- FAO#21: Spiral Stairs, Lou Barlow, Grant Hart & Jim O’Rourke
- Monsters Of Folk – self-titled
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – White Lunar
- Piano Magic – Ovations
- Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship Remixes 12″
- At Swim Two Birds – Before You Left
- Flipsides & Otherwise: FAO #20
- Flipsides & Otherwise: FAO #19
- Flipsides & Otherwise: FAO #18
- The Lemonheads – Varshons
- Tortoise (Doug McCombs interview and albums guide)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – From Her To Eternity/The Firstborn Is Dead/Kicking Against The Pricks/Your Funeral… My Trial (CD/DVD reissues)
- Flipsides & Otherwise: FAO#17
- Flipsides & Otherwise: FAO #16
- M Ward – Hold Time
- Flipsides & Otherwise: FAO #15
