D.G. Adams
The Old Heart (Jump Attack Records)

The grizzled beard displayed in the cover art of The Old Heart suggests that D.G. Adams isn’t a newcomer, and the fact that the record was produced by Torquil Campbell (of Stars, Memphis, and Broken Social Scene) suggests that he has some serious connections in the musical world.

As it turns out, Adams likely knows Campbell from his other gig, as a Shakespearean actor. Adams has trod the boards a few times himself, and he actually is a (relative) newcomer to music.

The Old Heart is only his third record, and it’s not bad at all. Adams has a decent singing voice, for an actor, and if the production occasionally veers toward an odd kind of ’80s slickness, the lyrics to numbers like the street-person anthem “Fuck Life and Fuck the World” inject a dose of needed edge.