AdrienSo yesterday was pretty crappy all round. My car finally gave up and decided to properly breakdown, which caused no end of hassle. The positive part is that it was a relatively small fault, which was fixed pretty cheaply. The negative is that this took hours to do and led to me being massively late for work and being exhausted by the time I started. By the time I finished it was all I could do to collapse into bed and sleep for the best part of ten hours. Which for me is about double what I would usually get. Still, everything is right again now, so it’s time to get back to the music.

I’d like to introduce you to Adrien. That simple name doesn’t give anything away about what he does musically, and believe me, it’s something special. is actually the younger brother of Julian, the singer from The Young Republic (who I interviewed here). He makes music that wouldn’t sound out of place if performed by , but also has a unique sound of his own. He also likes his orchestral indie folk music, which is great because, let’s be honest, there’s nowhere near enough of it in the world.

He plays his music with varied bands supporting him, at the moment utilising three violinists, a cellist, a drummer, a keyboardist, some more singers, and one guy who plays harmonica, bass and the banjo. Presumably not all at the same time. Adrien himself plays guitar and sings, with a voice that is far beyond his years. It took me a while to accept the voice on these mp3s is from the same guy who is in the picture up there.

MP3 Adrien – Bright Lights (expired)
MP3 Adrien – A Ghost You Know (expired)
MP3 Adrien – Lazy Bones (expired)
MP3 Adrien – Awake In Providence (expired)

All of these songs are taken from his recently released EP entitled ‘A Ghost You Know’, which you can seemingly only buy from emailing him via his Myspace and arranging some kind of monetary payment.