- Stranger on the Sofa
Infobox Album |
Name = Stranger on the Sofa
Type =Album
Artist =Barry Adamson
Released = 2006
Recorded =
Genre =Lounge music Electronica Jazz
Length =
Label =Central Control
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zfpxqwdldke link]
Last album = King of Nothing Hill
(2002)
This album = Stranger on the Sofa
(2006)
Next album = Back to the Cat
(2008)"Stranger on the Sofa" is an album, released in 2006 on
Central Control by audio/visual artistBarry Adamson . It received mass critical acclaim upon its release and features a single in the track "The Long Way Back Again".Track listing
# "Here In The Hole"
# "The Long Way Back Again"
# "Officer Bentley's Fairly Serious Dilemma"
# "Who killed Big Bird?"
# "Theresa Green"
# "The Sorrow And The Pity"
# "My Friend The Fly"
# "Inside Of Your Head"
# "You Sold Your Dreams"
# "Deja Morte"
# "Dissemble"
# "Free Love"* Track 1 features narration by
Anna Chancellor
* Tracks 2, 8 features Nick Plytas on Hammond Organ
* Track 3 features Adrian Owusu on lead guitar
* Tracks 4, 6, 11, 12 are instrumentals
* Track 10 features narration by Pascale Fuillée-KendallCritical Reception
"As good as anything he has done. The bleak, dysfunctional cityscapes conjured are nightmarish" - Sunday Times Culture 4/5
"This is it. After decade of giving us good and even fine work, he's finally treated the faithful to a masterpiece" - Allmusic 4.5/5
"Proves once again what an unnerving space the interior of his head must be" - Mojo 4/5
"All over the place, swinging through dark pop, atmospheric instrumentals, and demented circus music... unique with great personality" - 7.5/10 Pitchforkmedia.com
"Original, unique and packed full of imagery, if this was a film, it would be the best you've ever seen" - The Sun 4/5
"All the songs are memorable, sometimes gorgeous, and always a strange amalgam of past and present influences" - Brainwashed.com
"This latest contains flashes of his finest work" - Uncut
"There's a perversely comforting Lynchian chill to the stygian sewer-funk of 'Dissemble' and the dub electronica of 'Free Love'" - Plan B Magazine
”Shtimulating stuff, Mish Moneypenny” - The Word Magazine (Plus "Who Killed Big Bird?" on covermount CD)
"By track 8, ‘the stranger’ is not only on your sofa, but taking his shoes off and polishing off your iced tea" - Okayplayer.com
"He succeeds beautifully in taking us to his haunted hotel lounge where the ghosts of the Cramps and Jimmy Webb jostle for space on the bandstand" - Beatmag.net
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