Conor Adams

Conor Adams wanted to work on a solo project ever since he first picked up a guitar. Inspired to play by his love of Smashing Pumpkins, he also used to borrow his father’s acoustic to write songs in the singer-songwriter and folk traditions too. And that’s something he’s done ever since, while fronting <a href="spotify:artist:3V7bQqNkZEgaeYNqLw82oI" data-name="The Cast Of Cheers">The Cast Of Cheers</a> and then by earning a global-facing audience with <a href="spotify:artist:7F0pUx0AO9CXaNbCoxbbNX" data-name="All Tvvins">All Tvvins</a>.

In the summer of 2019 he glanced through the self-written sixty-strong songbook that he had collected on his laptop over the course of three years. While that was the prompt to commit to the project, he had little idea that few of those songs would survive as part of the project.

The songs are unified by a simple phrase: “I admired your grace at the end of the world.” It’s a guiding star that lends itself to so many stories, both real and fictional, in the future and in the here-and-now. “It could be a million years after the world and these songs are looking back at every story. You can see a tonne of grace in the world, even in the bad things.”

Vital to the sound is Cormac Butler (Producer) ability to interpret Conor’s often abstract suggestions. The rich swathes of vocals (inspired by his childhood love of Queen) are ever present, but they’re surrounded by traits found in modernist pop: heavy basslines, dramatic synths and punchy 808 kicks. They were mostly written on piano before multi-instrumentalist Conor reinvented them in the studio.