With the Doors-like ‘White Women’ opening with the line, “You know I want to bone you” followed by “Fuck fuck me baby” it’s obvious that former Moldy Peach Adam Green hasn’t quite abandoned his penchant for puerile adolescent humour.
As ever with this maverick talent, Gemstones is predictable only in its sheer unpredictability. Whilst his musical style remains at least moderately categorizable (those ragged folk rhythms are still present and correct), lyrically, his approach is more laissez faire than the economic policies of Reagan and Thatcher combined.
