Easy Tiger

5/5

Easy Tiger

Ryan Adams

  1. gives it a: 5/5

    If this album had a smell, it would be stale cigarettes and cheap beer. If it had a look, it would be a motel room bed with the covers pulled to one side as a muted TV bathes the room in blue.

    Ryan Adams most uncomplicated album, Easy Tiger is a low fi alt country rock record about hopeless romantics, bad one night stands and prostitutes. It’s power lies within Adams band, the ever on the mark Cardinals, as they wash Adams pained, youthful croon in layers of steel guitar and paint brush drumming, all while Adams strums away like uncaged bird.

    On tracks like “Goodnight Rose” and “Two”, Adams is desperate and in need of some cheap, no frills love. He sings about it like he’s never gonna find it again. The albums best only fast number is the punk rock banger “Halloweenhead”, where Adams manages to sound at once like Sonic Youth and Wilco. The record has no weakness.

    Buy it……love it.