Hope and Adams

Artist: Wheat
Label: Sugar Free Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 615493001320
EAN: 0615493001320
ASIN: B00001SVON

Release Date: 1999-10-26

Hope and Adams

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Tracks:

This Wheat
Slow Fade
Don't I Hold You
Raised Ranch Revolution
San Diego
No One Ever Told Me
Be Brave
Who's The One
Off The Pedestal
And Someone With Strengths
Body Talk (Part 1)
Body Talk (Part 2)
More Than You'll Ever Know
Roll The Road

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Customer Reviews:

wow! .......2006-02-20

This is an amazing record from start to end; outstanding songwriting, great textures & sounds, and overall, a great feel. I think it would be difficult NOT to love an album with the depth and warmth of this one.

Good.......2006-01-22

Nothing wrong with this cd. Nothing great either. It's basically Creeper Lagoon.

The best cd I own? Quite!.......2004-03-29

Growing up in my hometown of Taunton, MA I learned a few things. The most important, don't expect much from the local bands. Yet out of the clear, okay, mostly overcast skies, came Wheat. Rising from the ashes of Blair's Carriage with songs sounding unlike anything I'd ever heard outside of my dreams, I pinched myself hard. This can't be real. This can't be Taunton. My spirits were lifted and my faith restored. Ladies and gentlemen. This is the most beautiful album you will ever hear. At least once Aware re-releases it hopefully with a bonus track or eight.

Wheat, everything including the husk.......2004-03-18

Remember in chemistry class when a liquid would slightly change it's colors? With the musical formula slightly changing with each song, that's the sense I get with this CD. 'Hope And Adams' is an interesting fusion of indie and roots rock along with neo-psychadelic twists. Overall there's a wispy smokey, almost reflective feeling to Wheat's music, with this uncanny ability to maintain it considering their wide range of influences. The first half seems to straddle adult-contemporary rock and the experimental country-tinged flavor of Wilco. The second half tends to explore a bit, going from the moody soundscapes of My Morning Jacket/The Eagles and unconventional marching rhythms, to Dandy Warhols-type power-pop and acoustic ballads. The lead vocals also seem to transform a bit, shifting from a predominantly Johnny Rzeznik croon to Wayne Coyne and Don Henley. Diverse as 'Hope And Adams' is, if there's a common thread that strings all the songs together, it's a bit of subtle The Flaming Lips trickery, from quirky studio sounds to strings, organs, and piano. A metamorphosis of song-writing, this album is really a pleasing listen, lush, with cohesive well-crafted songs.

This album is, in one word, beauty........2003-11-19

Hope and Adams, Wheat's sophomore album, takes you back to a time where everything is beautiful. The intense musical interludes can make your heart skip a beat if you listen close enough.
This album is aimed at those looking for a mellower indie rock, kind of a Ben Folds-type with more emphasis on the rest of the band.

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