'FURTHER LISTENING' by Smash Addams - Coming To All Platforms *25 JUL 2025* from Barely There Studio!!

 

Smash Addams's 24th solo album!

12 New Tracks including "Praise To You", "Looking Forward" and "Can We Still Be Heroes?"  

A mix of R&B/Soul, Alternative, Pop and Electronica leaving off from his last album, 2023's DUST OFF THE RACKS---as well as including his sides from last year's StarsNeverSleep reunion singles (his wife, Lucy Dawn, is the other 1/2 of the group). Lucy contributed much to the soul of this record; her production and songwriting contributions ("Bold Move" and "Divine"--particularly) are an integral part. 

The project started out as a mixtape follow-up to the AFTER GEOMETRY and XV albums for "shits and giggles."

"Praise To You" is surprisingly a gospel soul blast by a one-man band who's also his own choir, as well! "Realize" is cut from a similar cloth--though the song is now about the disillusionment of 'waking up' from believing in a lie (so to speak). Lucy Dawn sings a haunting refrain on the chorus; and the coda features Puredandyy on the piano. "Was It Something I Said?" was inspired by a late discovery of The Stone Roses' debut album. "Looking Forward" is a drastic reworking of a forgotten b-side. Also? It's the first SMASH ADDAMS album that bumps in the car!

 

Recorded at Barely There Studio (North MS), April - July 2025 

Produced by Adam and Lucy Gaither / Mastered by A.G.

Smash Addams sings and plays acoustic, electric and backmasked guitars; bass; drums, keyboards, tambourine, loops and samples / Featuring backing from THE ELOQUENT 7EVEN on Looking Forward, Divine, and Bold Move / StarsNeverSleep  [LUCY DAWN on rhythm guitar, bass, keys + bgv - ROLAND TURNER on drums] on Can We Still Be Heroes? and I Need Her Love to Get By / LUCY DAWN also sings back-up on Realize--as well as Was It Something I Said? and Cool Head, Low Key (playing organ while ROLAND TURNER's on drums); loops and samples on Motivate and Further Listening.

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