{"id":401,"date":"2009-03-13T00:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T07:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downthelinezine.com\/archives\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-02-09T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T18:35:29","slug":"perfecta-by-adam-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/perfecta-by-adam-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfecta by Adam Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"perfecta\"ADAM AGAIN
PERFECTA<\/strong>
1995 Brainstorm
Review by: Matt Crosslin<\/p>\n

Perfecta<\/em> is the rawest and (at times) loudest Adam Again disc. One reviewer even called it “the book of Job of music.” This would be a very apt description. Gene\u2019s voice is pretty desperate at places here \u2013 whether he is asking himself what to do when the electricity goes out at his studio or expressing his sorrow over the main pains of life. There is still humor to be found scattered throughout the album. In “Harsh,” you can hear a hint of sarcastic laughter when he sings “now be a dear and leave me alone.\u201d”He is basically telling someone to go away\u2026 but he also finds something funny in the way he says it.<\/p>\n

Heavy on Gene’s heart at the time of this album was his recent divorce, but that is not all. Themes of loss slip in to many of the songs on the album. Much of the carefully crafted word play from Dig is gone, but the lyrics here are still deep and confessional even if they aren\u2019t twisting your tongue at the same time.<\/p>\n

Perfecta<\/em> was said to have been recorded live in the studio, during what Gene referred to as a “three-year jam session.” That would probably be the best way to describe the whole album \u2013 an intense jam recorded while all the players involved were living and\/or discussing some of the harder parts of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADAM AGAIN PERFECTA 1995 Brainstorm Review by: Matt Crosslin Perfecta is the rawest and (at times) loudest Adam Again disc. One reviewer even called it “the book of Job of music.” This would be a very apt description. Gene\u2019s voice … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[28,111],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gene-eugene-tribute","category-music-review","tag-adam-again","tag-brainstorm-artists-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}