Coming To Terms

Carolina Liar’s Chad Wolf has described his rags to bling story as ‘like something out of a Poison video’. As a chipper 20-something he abandoned Charleston, South Carolina for Los Angeles, guitar strapped to back, head full of dreams of stardom. Initially, things didn’t quite work out that way – he was living in rat-infested apartment in the middle of LA’s methhead hangout when he finally came into the orbit of Swedish uber-producer Max Martin (for whom we have to thank/blame for Britney’s ...Baby One More Time). Taking the raffish Wolf under his wing, Martin flew him to Stockholm, helping write and produce this collection of graciously slick mid-tempo rockers. Break-out single ‘Show Me What I’m Looking For’ you already know – and while the rest of Coming To Terms isn’t quite as sublime, it is, nonetheless a perfectly agreeable shot as mass-market anthemia. If Snow Patrol were a bunch of scraggly-haired hillbillies with designs on Middle America, here’s what they’d sound like.