Adam Gnade
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| Adam Gnade | |
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| Origin | San Diego, California |
| Genre(s) | "Talking-songs" Alternative country Indie rock |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Label(s) | Punch Drunk Press
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| Website | www.adamgnade.com |
Adam Gnade is a San Diego, California-born American musician and author now living in Nevada City, California. Often considered a part of the New Weird America folk music scene, he defines his music as "talking-songs", which he describes as mixing the spoken vocals of talking blues songs with country music, Appalachian folk, noise, and drone music influences. His work is issued as a series of albums, novellas, and, most recently, a novel, which continue the stories of each other's characters and further develop plot-lines.
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[edit] History
In late 2005, Gnade signed to the California-based Loud + Clear Records, toured the US, and issued Run Hide Retreat Surrender, his first official full-length record after a series of self-released, extremely limited edition CDs and cassettes.
In 2006, he issued a set of limited run experimental albums (We Are Ghosts and Bones Down Stone-Walled Wells and the 2 CD single) expanding on his "talking songs" idea before signing a UK label deal with Drowned in Sound (also home to collaborators Youthmovies). Drowned in Sound released Gnade's EP Shout the Rafters Down! in Nov of 2006, after which he toured Europe in support of the record, alongside Oxford, England's Youthmovies and Brighton's Blood Red Shoes.
Gnade also recorded a "talking song"-style track with Faux-Hoax in mid-2006, a side project band featuring Dave Allen (producer/bassist, the bass guitar player of the 1970s British post-punk band Gang of Four, John Askew from Oregon indie rock group Tracker, and Danny Seim of Menomena and Lackthereof. The track, "Your Friends Will Carry You Home," was released on a 7" of the same name by Polyvinyl Record Co. in May of 2009. The 7" also features members of Portland, Oregon's Modest Mouse and 31 Knots.
Recent U.S., European, Mexican, Canadian, and United Kingdom radio singles include "Hymn California," "Honey Slides," "Dance to the War," "The Winter/Their Apartment," "Room for Three and the Bayou Summer," "Palaces," "Lanterns, Rakes, and Shovels," "We're Unknowing in the Crosshairs," "The Old Lover," "Snake Lore," "It's Five O'Clock in America," and "We Live Nowhere and Know No One."
2007 saw a two-month US tour, a five-week tour of England and Scotland (alongside Youthmovies, Jonquil, House of Brothers, Blanket, and Eugene McGuinness), and the release of Honey Slides, a collaborative EP with Youthmovies on the Try Harder Records label. There was also a tour-only novella, entitled Seasons Loving Nothing, that was available on the UK dates. As of December, 2008, Gnade requested that Seasons Loving Nothing be taken out of print following its fourth printing.
His next full-length, Trailerparks, was released by Try Harder Records as a limited-edition, tour-only pressing in late 2008 in time for a three-week tour of Europe with Youthmovies.
In September 2008, DutchMoney Books released a novel of Gnade's writing that continues the stories of the albums' characters. It is called Hymn California. A novella of connected material entitled The Darkness to the West was released in December 2008 via Punch Drunk Press.
In November, the experimental label Blast First (Petite) released a Youthmovies EP entitled Polyp which features Gnade contributing lead vocals to two tracks, "Sad Trash" and "Become an Island" which also features contributions from Joe Fro from 65DaysofStatic and Hugo Manuel of Jonquil. The resulting tour in November 2008 featuring both acts was called the Polyp Tour.
On February 22nd 2009, Gnade announced the release of a new EP. Island's Islands will be released on cassette and limited to just 100 copies. On his website Gnade revealed that each copy of the EP would be recorded separately and each would be completely different.
Gnade's latest record, The Wild Homesick, was released in May of 2009 on the Punch Drunk label.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Full-length albums
- Run Hide Retreat Surrender (2005, Loud + Clear Records)
- We Are Ghosts and Bones Down Stone Walled Wells (2006, limited edition, reissued in 2007)
- Trailerparks (2008, tour-only limited edition release, Try Harder Records)
[edit] Split albums and collaborative albums
- Adam Gnade and Ohioan (2006, Native Kin, limited edition split album with Ohioan)
- Wilderness and the Holy Gold (2006, BelowPDX, limited edition collaboration with Argumentix)print
[edit] EPs
- Goodbye, Drunken Ghost (2000, limited edition self-released cassette EP)
- Shiv Shiv Shake (2002, self-released EP)
- Shout the Rafters Down! (2006, digital EP, Drowned in Sound)
- Honey Slides (2007, collaboration with Youthmovies Try Harder Records)
- Palaces/Whidbey Island (2007, limited edition double-CD, Bad Drone Media, reissued in 2008)
- Island's Islands (2009, very limited cassette EP, Punch Drunk Tapes)
- The Wild Homesick (2009, CD, Punch Drunk Tapes)
[edit] Singles
- "2" (2006, limited edition CD)
- "Prince of the Confederacy" (2006, split cassette release with Gang Wizard, DeathBombArc)
[edit] Compilations and miscellaneous appearances
- "Look at What the Light Did Now" (Little Wings cover) from Happy Birthday, K Records (Asthmatic Kitty, digital)
- "Hymn California" from DiS is 6 (Drowned in Sound sixth anniversary compilation, LP)
- "Room for Three and the Bayou Summer" from We Made This, Portland
- "T'was the Night Before Christmas" from Another Grey Xmas
- "Snake Lore" from Loud News UK Magazine Compilation CD
- Various tracks from Bad Drone Media Sampler
- "Psalm" from Wood-Land Remixes
- Lead vocals on "Sad Trash" and Become an Island" from Youthmovies EP Polyp (Blast First Petite)
- Lead vocals on "Your Friends Will Carry You Home" from Faux-Hoax (members of Gang of Four, Modest Mouse, and Menomena) 7" (Polyvinyl)
- "Prince of the Confederacy" from DeathBomb Arc Tape Club Year Two Sampler 3-CD
[edit] Books and zines
- Seasons Loving Nothing (2007, limited-edition novella)
- Get Healthy! (2008, zine, released by Asthmatic Kitty)
- Hymn California (2008, novel, Dutchmoney Books)
- The Darkness to the West (2008, novella, Punch Drunk Press)
