Adult Books - Grecian Urn (2021)

Adult Books is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based writer and
multi-instrumentalist Nick Winfrey. With the help of childhood
friends Sina Salessi (drums) and Alex Galindo (guitar/synth),
Winfrey crafts lyric-driven dark pop gems that recall the
hook-heavy guitar work of Johnny Marr, the just-below-the-collar
angst of Mission of Burma, and the doomsday bellow of early
Echo and the Bunnymen.

After a well-received string of bedroom demos and cassettes,
Adult Books released their first full-length album, Running from
the Blows , in 2016, trading in their previous home-recorded
sounds for a cleaned-up act that allowed Winfrey’s pop savvy
and understated lyrical wit to shine through. Two years of heavy
touring followed, after which Winfrey found himself both burned
out and uninspired by the business of music.

Following a much-needed hiatus, Adult Books is finally ready to
share their sophomore LP, Grecian Urn . Recorded with Jonny
Bell (Crystal Antlers) and mastered by Dave Cooley (Animal
Collective, J Dilla) , Grecian Urn was crafted over the course
of nearly two years; however, the seeds of the album were sown
more than a decade earlier. When sitting down to write Grecian
Urn , Winfrey revisited old demos, forgotten voice memos and
unfinished fragments of songs to create something wholly new.

The end result is a self-assured and intensely personal album
places Winfrey’s evocative images and economic
storytelling approach front and center. A loose concept album of
sorts, Grecian Urn draws on classical Mediterranean imagery and
mythos as a means of exploring Winfrey’s past traumas and
struggles with chronic anxiety.