Adam Green: Friends Of Mine : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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As half of the moldy peaches, adam Green emerged from New York's "anti-folk" scene, although in the Peaches' case, "porn folk" would be a more appropriate tag: Over acoustic-punk bashing, Green and partner Kimya Dawson traded lines about slipping each other roofies and giving blow jobs for Ecstasy. This heavy reliance on shocking lyrics hurt Green's 2002 solo debut, but Friends of Mine shows off his promise as a songwriter, if not his maturity as a lyricist. Despite some typically icky lines ("There's no wrong way to fuck a girl with no legs"), these tuneful, well-kempt songs bubble over with swooning string arrangements, pretty melodies and Green's surprisingly polished crooning. But the real coup is "Jessica," a sweetly comic ode to Jessica Simpson in which Green proves he can be an irreverent weirdo and a sentimental sap at the same time.

CHRISTIAN HOARD
(RS 928, August 7, 2003)