Review Summary: Pink Floyd and Nirvana had a baby...
Listening to Adam can be confusing. Sun is an album that takes you on a journey through space and time through a range of musical textures and soundscapes. If you give it time and patience, like the songs themselves, it can be a rewarding adventure.
Considered a concept album, Adam's 'Sun' is an exercise in space rock grandeur that leaves us with plenty of room for interpretation and thought. The opener 'And then there was light...' sets the scene with a philosophical name and cosmological feel that builds like a rising storm. 'Super Silver Haze' takes us through a psychedelic rock trip that teeters on the edge of doom and other genres and for some reason reminds me of Nirvana (although I can't say why). 'Never Say Never' is a song that builds to a climax with a short guitar solo that fades away as the atmospheric chorus repeats the title line of the track and an electronic space alarm sounding noise takes us to the close of the song. At times the album explores other genres like grunge in the track 'Enter Oblivion', but even here it blends a unique sound driven by an original drum section that keeps you hooked while the chorus draws comparisons to the vocal sound on 'Never Say Never'. At this point you might wonder what else the album could offer, after all they covered so many sounds in the first half of the album, what could be left?
Well Monolith Phase 1 takes us to a different tempo and although it's reminiscent of the 'Super Silver Haze', it has the similar spacey, psychedelic feel, it's a nice change from previous songs on the record serving almost as an interlude or intermission as 'Monolith Phase 2' heats up immediately upon commencement. The song writing and lyricism is also taken to a new level here with lines like:
"Nothing ever ends
What rises will descend
And fade into the darkest night
Until it shines again
Awaiting your return
A shadow in the dying light"
And with that is the tragedy of this album. It ends. Monolith Phase 3 takes us through another spacey soundscape that leaves us questioning does everything have an ending, or are all endings just another beginning?
