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Steve Adey: Find the Way (Play/Grand Harmonium)
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By Matthew Hirtes
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Monday, 31 July 2006
 “Let’s go for a ride.” So begins Birmingham-born but Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter Steve Adey’s tale of a couple’s futile attempts to stoke the dying embers of their relationship. The first single to be taken from well-received debut album All Things Real, it’s a real choker of a record.
“Happy making miserable music”, Adey accompanies his lugubrious vocals with suitably downbeat piano-playing. Imagine Nick Cave sans Bad Seeds and you’re halfway to conceptualizing Adey’s sound. ‘Find The Way’ is a song to be savoured like a vintage Scotch. On the rocks.
Although English is far from being his first language, an Italian admirer sums up what it means to listen to Adey. In a fan letter, the unidentified supporter raves: “I heard a thrill under my veins hearing your voice, thanks for give me some emotion while everybody sung the end of music, you Adey give blood to the music.” Though being, unlike the mysterious Italian, a native English speaker, I couldn’t put it better myself.
(4½/5)
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