Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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Surge presents: Adaline - http://adalinemusic.com/ Tickets at: Lyles Place / Ditch Records / Online: http://tinyurl.com/cvsvja3 Adaline: http://adalinemusic.com/ Talk about starting with a bang. Adaline achieves near Judy Garland levels of melodrama on “That’s What You Do Best”, the stately electro-torch song that opens her new album, Modern Romantics. But she doesn’t get there without boxing your ears with wiggy sax (from Shuffle Demon Richard Underhill) and unhinged guitar solos (by Hawksley Workman) on the way. It’s what Adaline does best; elegant structures that happen to be wildly hooky. “It’s a pop record,” she says of her sophomore effort, “but certainly not straight down the middle. I have pop sensibilities, but I hope I come across as a little deeper th... more...