Adam Green announces ‘Gemstones’ 20th anniversary reissue

Adam Green has announced a 20th anniversary reissue of his third album ‘Gemstones’. Find all the details below.

The New York soloist and Moldy Peaches founder will release the new pressing of his landmark 2005 record on Friday December 12 via Rough Trade. It’ll be available as both a standard black vinyl and a limited edition yellow vinyl with a mirror-board sleeve. Pre-order/here.

“2005 was a crazy time – I was a wide-eyed 23-year-old coming to terms with my newfound German pop-stardom – I was fronting a powerful band, the classic line-up of Steven Mertens, Parker Kindred, Nathan Brown and Chris Isom,” Green explained.

“We had been touring all year, and we knew the songs inside out before we recorded them. I was bringing along new cabaret influences of Scott Walker, Jacques Brel, Berto Brecht, Chet Baker and The Doors.

“Never has an album so effortlessly poured out of me – there’s some powerful magic spells on there.”

He continued: “I was in the right place, at the right time, and ‘Gemstones’ is the evidence I grabbed. There was an optimism in the air, before the nihilism that permeated the next album, ‘Jacket Full Of Danger’, where I began to get swallowed by the void.”

An official description calls cult classic ‘Gemstones’ “a sort of musical reply to Bright Lights, Big City” that is “firmly rooted in the Big Apple”.

“Its rockabilly rhythms rattle with the L-Train, its melodies hit like a fresh cross street gust, but whether you’ve visited New York or not its brisk, affecting songs will resonate with anyone who knows what it is like to be alone amongst the crowd,” it adds.

The description goes on to say that ‘Gemstones’ – which went Gold in Europe – “made Green a superstar in Germany as audiences resonated with this 21st-century ‘The Two Cent Opera’ of intricate tales and bright tunes”.