Afal by Adam Walton
RECOMMENDED FOR RADIO: 2, 4, 6, 9, 11
FOR FANS OF: Elliott Smith, Katherine Priddy, Teenage Fanclub, The Kinks
The songs are deliciously quirky and evocative - so refreshing. If I had my own radio show, I'd definitely play this lovely album by Adam Walton - I love it!”
Mary Hopkin
“… he’s been making his own solo album of sublime lysergic folk reveries. I fell hard for this last night & perhaps you might too“
Pete Paphides
My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales.
My new album ‘Afal’ is released on Friday 29th April 2022. It’s folkish, melodic (I hope) and a little bit trippy, dictated by the songs having been mostly written and recorded after late shifts at work. I wanted to preserve as much humanity and natural grain in the recordings as possible… eschewing autotune, multiple takes and any urge for perfection.
I love slightly off kilter chord sequences and melodies that weave and glow. If the melodies weave and glow for you, I’ll be a happy-ish man.
Musically-speaking? I don’t know… there are scraps of Emitt Rhodes, Beck, De La Soul, Elliott Smith, Love, Teenage Fanclub, Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur, Richard Holland’s compilation tapes… The Zombies, Pink Floyd and The Boo Radleys.
It’s about being older and not hating it; not eschewing responsibility, but giving your imagination and flights of fancy daily mouth-to-mouth and defibrillation.
It’s trying to elicit the same sense of wonder that Operation Jonah, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Wacky Amoebatrons, Many Happy Returns, The Lotus Caves, And Your Bird Can Sing, Strange Perceptions, Runequest, The Losers Club, and rainy, deserted winter afternoons in Portmeirion elicited in me.
To my mind, the instrumental sketches interspersed throughout the album are just as important as the songs, but then the songs aren’t all that important, anyway, so it’s a moot point.
I do hope you like ‘Afal’, I won’t pretend otherwise. I hope it casts a spell over you.
Thank you for listening / diolch am wrando.
The album is available via all the usual streaming / download outlets from Friday 29th April 2022, and also as a limited edition black vinyl LP (300 copies) from bandcamp.
https://theimmediate.bandcamp.com/album/afal
All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control)
Recorded by a combination of me and Russ Hayes, between my house and Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr.
Artwork by the very wonderful Beverley Dale
http://beverleydale.com
Live Dates
27.04.22 Bwyd Da, Bangor (Ukraine Fundraiser)
10.06.22 The Lexington, London (with Helen Love)
18.06.22 Le Pub, Newport (with Martin Carr and Richard J. Parfitt)
24.06.22 Elysium, Swansea
09.07.22 B-Fest, Caerwys
23.08.22 Loud & Local Festival, Alexander’s, Chester
03.09.22 Well Inn Music Festival, Holywell
For bookings, please mail: mradamwalton@googlemail.com
Tracklist
| 1. | #01 | 0:33 |
| 2. | Rain on My Parade | 2:59 |
| 3. | #03 | 0:46 |
| 4. | Emily Said (on Account of the Days) | 2:16 |
| 5. | #04 | 0:34 |
| 6. | Mary Sees UFO's | 3:22 |
| 7. | Cornelian | 2:49 |
| 8. | #12 | 1:10 |
| 9. | Cloudburst II | 3:20 |
| 10. | #05 | 1:31 |
| 11. | Blinded by Headlights | 2:55 |
| 12. | #08 | 1:01 |
| 13. | Goldfinch | 3:36 |
| 14. | #02 | 0:27 |
| 15. | 2269 | 3:23 |
| 16. | #03 | 0:30 |
| 17. | Foreveryou | 3:08 |
| 18. | #10 | 0:43 |
| 19. | The Moon and the Stars | 3:16 |
| 20. | #07 | 1:53 |
Credits
Adam Walton: guitars, vox, synths, stuff, production.
License
All rights reserved.
My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales.
I love slightly off kilter chord sequences & melodies that weave and glow. If the melodies weave and glow for you, I’ll be a happy-ish man.
There are scraps of Emitt Rhodes, Beck, De La Soul, Elliott Smith, Love, Teenage Fanclub, Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur, Richard Holland’s compilation tapes… The Zombies, Pink Floyd & The Boo Radleys.