4.52am Issue: 003 9th October 2016

ADAM TORRES
Pearls To Swine
Adam Torres is that rarity in these days of
X-Factor production lines, the genuine
article, and though the word has been
sullied by repeated mouthing by fools, he is
what he is, a proper artist. Musically, Pearls
to Swine is low key, in a good way, where
simple tones can add colour to what could
otherwise be a sepia, gritty slow-motion
filmscape of some anonymous American
town you’ve never seen or heard of. But the
music is secondary on everything Torres
does as it genuinely is all about his voice,
which is mesmerising, angel clear and at
times other worldly.
Comparisons spring to mind with a
Telecaster picking Jeff Buckley, but Torres
leaps beyond such obviously lazy clichés as
his song-writing is perhaps stronger than
Buckley’s ever was and certainly his voice
holds a hollow maturity that Buckley
never had the time to reach,
unfortunately.
And there is that sense with Torres that
his compelling back story of turning his
back on music to travel, do aid work and
the rest is more than a PR company
angle, as there is a depth to his songs
that you continue to explore, beatifically.
However many times you listen to them
they point to the fact that the boy, and
the artist have grown and his horizons are
now limitless.
Is this his Grace? I don’t know, but I’d
suggest it betters Buckley’s masterpiece,
and not many can lay claim to such
standards. Check him out Here