Adam Green

ADAM GREEN
Sixes & Sevens
Folkie Flies Freak Flag High
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Check the sky for locusts, because an album featuring the Moldy Peaches landed at the top of the charts recently. Good timing for ex-Peach Green. Nothing here quite lives up to the giddy brilliance of the Juno soundtrack‘s “Anyone Else But You” (although “Drowning Head First” echoes its lovey-dovey duet delivery nicely) but there’s still plenty to draw hearts around in your 5th period notebook. Green’s spaced-out, folky mugging, cornball anachronistic delivery and minimal bedroom orchestration place him in an entirely alternate temporal dimension on tracks like “Tropical Island,” something straight out of some Elvis in Hawaii Technicolor dream . Like his classic “Jessica Simpson,” it straddles a line between irony and straight-faced oddity so fine it’s invisible. But then you pay attention to the subtlety cracked-out lyrics on songs like “Be My Man” and you realize there’s no other time or place that a creature like Green could exist. Lucky us. (Rough Trade; www.roughtrade.com)

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