Singing Adams is the third coming of singer-songwriter Steven Adams.

The former Broken Family Band frontman put the group together six months after a split befitting the cult country-cum-indie band’s name.

“On the whole most people from the Broken Family Band are still friends,” he says.

“Mostly we were all quite happy about the split. But some people had their noses put out of joint. I don’t think there will ever be any reformation of the group.”

Before the BFB, Adams had some minor success with Hofman.

“We were a not very good late-1990s indie band. Steve Lamacq liked us, the best thing we ever did was a Peel session, and we were on a Fierce Panda compilation, but we were actually a bit c***.

“We lasted a lot longer than we should have because of Steve Lamacq.”

Hofman parted company after another slice of acrimony.

“We all got together one January, all four of us, and three of us put our brand new mini-disc players we’d got for Christmas on the table. It sparked an argument with our drummer who didn’t have one and we decided to split. He actually said to me, ‘Every time you open your mouth nothing but s*** comes out.’ So I walked my bike home in the snow.”

The musicians Adams invited to play with Singing Adams must have wondered what they’d signed up for.

But Adams insists that debut album Everybody Friends Now was such a joy to make, plans have already been made for a follow-up.

“The key was making everyone feel relaxed. It’s reflected in a sunny, comfortable-sounding record. Now that we all know each other better, we can dig a bit deeper for the next one.”

He’s a courteous, confident man. By the time he sat down to make Singing Adams’ eleven-track debut, he’d met up again with Hofman’s former drummer who produced the group’s early demos.

Adams’ lyrical dexterity, which led to dabbles with journalism at the Guardian in his downtime, is again central. He takes a nostalgic look back to his former group on The Old Days and rhythmic couplets on Red Carpet – “Tattered gulls are circling above your street, you’re looking out on a morning that smells of defeat” – reflect his headspace.

The sense of a song capturing a moment is why he loves songwriting.

“You end up in six months’ time learning something about yourself. Or you realise that what you were saying wasn’t what you thought you were saying.”

Often it’s realising a song initially written about somebody else might be about you. The evidence is latest single Injured Party.

“I wrote that in one go and didn’t think anything of it. When I looked at it later I thought, ‘Oh that’s funny, I know who that’s about’. It was almost as if someone else could have written it.

“Or you listen to it and realise that it sounds like that because you’d been listening to lots of Glenn Miller!”

The three musicians he invited for Singing Adams are bassist Michael Wood (formerly of indie band Michaelmas), drummer Melinda Bronstein (Absentee, Wet Paint), and guitarist Matthew Ashton (The Leaf Library, Saloon). Aside from the fact all their names begin with a hard consonant, Adams liked their singing voices, which gives an indication of the Singing Adams collective approach to performance.

He admired their playing, too, which is useful because he doesn’t always trust his taste. Perhaps that’s why Everybody Friends Now feels a bit like a mix-tape done, as he says, by a craftsman rather than an artist, with its art in the whole – the way the words fit with the music.

“I never sit with one style. Most records I’ve been involved in have felt a bit like a mix-tape.

“With Singing Adams, all the songs have something in common: some element of celebration.

“They all have a moment of joy where the song celebrates itself.

“In the lyrics there is something about it that seems redemptive.”

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