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Composer and multi-instrumentalist Barry Adamson has always followed his own muse. Whether creating noirish instrumental soundscapes or atmospheric singer-songwriter pop, Adamson has made sophisticated, genre-blending music of a consistently high caliber. STRANGER ON THE SOFA (2007) combines multiple elements from Adamson's stylistic vocabulary, including film music, jazz, dub, post-punk, soul, loungy funk, and various uncategorizable mixtures thereof. But where some of Adamson's other releases may not have held together throughout, STRANGER ON A SOFA does, making it one of the artist's most worthwhile releases.
Personnel: Anna Chancellor, Pascale Fuillee-Kendall (vocals); Adrian Owusu (guitar); Nick Plytas (Hammond b-3 organ).
Q (p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "STRANGER ON THE SOFA comes across like a refresher of the best mood music of the last 40 years..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]f his songs are suggestive of dreadful, nameless deeds and an amoral universe....the sounds still swing, smile and look sharp." Stranger On The Sofa Music Barry Adamson Stranger On The Sofa Songs | 1. | Here in the Hole |
| 2. | Long Way Back Again, The |
| 3. | Officer Bentley's Fairly Serious Dilemma |
| 4. | Who Killed Big Bird? |
| 5. | Theresa Green |
| 6. | Sorrow and the Pity, The |
| 7. | My Friend the Fly |
| 8. | Inside of Your Head |
| 9. | You Sold Your Dreams |
| 10. | Deja Morte |
| 11. | Dissemble |
| 12. | Free Love |
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