Artist: Steven Adams and The French Drops
Title: Soft Landings
Format: Digital single
Cat#: Fika082SG3
Release date: 24th July 2020
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Soft Landings is the final single to be taken from the forthcoming album Keep It Light.
“This started off as a cryptic short story I was writing, but I was playing with the guitar melody and grabbed some of the words for this. It’s about a thing happening on a summer evening. Inge Thomson sings these incredible backing vocals on it; she has one of my favourite voices and it’s always a thrill to hear her on one of my songs. Our old pal Horse played some really cool pedal steel as well.”
Steven Adams is a "national musical treasure" (The Guardian) who fronted country pranksters The Broken Family Band throughout the 2000s before calling time on that band at the height of their success.
He's been ploughing his own furrow ever since, with multiple name changes (Singing Adams, The Singing Adams, Steven James Adams, Steven Adams & The French Drops), and a series of albums ranging from DIY indie rock, intimate folk and - with 2018's Virtue Signals - experiments in krautrock and politically-charged widescreen pop.
Originally from South Wales, Adams now lives in East London.