Pendant 'Through A Coil'

Debut album out on 8th November from Tiny Engines

Pendant is the solo project of Oakland based musician, Christopher Adams, a collaborator of many strings most recently with Never Young.

Following the dissolution of that band in early 2018, Adams started writing material and it soon become clear it was a venture that he had to share as a solo passion.

“In the past, my default strategy was to love something and then share it with others,” said Adams. “I needed another level of fulfillment. And that was to follow the notion of taking all my favorite ideas and dedicating them to my own music.”

Adams started writing material for his one man band in 2016 and released a four track EP, then it grew from 2018 onwards as he wanted to play every instrument and write every word of the album moving forward.

The album Through A Coil is a work of ambition primarily but one that befits the DIY nature of its genesis, moments of introspection collide with rollicking rock ear-catchiness from the title track to lead single 'Rubber Band' fittingly a song about finding your identity in one's self.  The album is full of this candid openness as Adams' explores his psyche in going it alone on this album. 


This pursuit for identity is key to the album and is a discovery for those who will come across it, again it marks another great addition to the Tiny Engines label.

Tender and personal, Pendant has made an album that can stand along other recent lo-fi works by Rayland Baxter, another who went solo on a project to make their best work to date.

Through A Coil is released by Tiny Engines on 8th November.
My thanks to them for the review opportunity.