Adam’s House Cat
Town Burned Down
This album was recorded in 1990, when Patterson
Hood and Mike Cooley had already known each other for five years, hanging out drinking beer at each other’s apartments, playing guitar and writing. Sadly, Adam’s House Cat split and the album was stored away for years on an increasingly fragile tape reel before being dusted off in 2018.
The likes of Lookout Mountain and Buttholeville are tinged by REM and The Replacements. These are rural, fast-packed, speedy, beat-up songs that evoke the quintessence of the American rock’n’roll freeway.
Poignantly, these aren’t the absolute original recordings, made in Athens, Georgia. Hood decided to re-record the vocals in the light of subsequence experience and practice. You sense in his raw outpourings the memories of the joy they had in making the original record and the joy that it has at last seen the light of day.