Daiana Feuer on June 28th, 2016

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After 13 years fronting “live-action-psychedelic-mix-tape-of-a-band” Residual Echoes, which went through seven or eight lineups, and then lending himself to 6 Organs of Admittance, Gun Outfit, King Tuff, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Cass McCombs and Hepa/Titus, to name a few, it seems natural that Adam Payne has chosen to come out with a solo project. Due July 22 on Selection Records, his upcoming LP “Famous Blondes” was recorded at various houses in Los Angeles and Manila, Calif., and finds Payne flavor-combining genres and sounds from track to track with the gleeful abandon of a mad scientist. Payne was listening to Brian Eno’s pop records, specifically the ones Robert Fripp had a hand in, and Prince’s “Parade” at the time he conceived first single “Tell Me.” His casual singing floats through a thicket of keyboard, guitar, and samples that grows ever more dense as the song closes in around his words, ultimately gobbling him up like a giant at a buffet.

||| Stream: “Tell Me”