Adam Green unveils three-track EP, Magic Spells / Vending Machine

“I was thinking about that scene in Macbeth with the Witches. Sometimes it feels like the whole world is cursed. "Magic Spells" is a song about choking on the dust of the horrorshow out there. Too little, too late. "Vending Machine" is like being at the controls of a spaceship where the interface of reality keeps transforming in front of your eyes. You can't remember what the buttons do, the symbols on them look strange to you. The machine arms come out and start messing with your private parts, and the only way to slow it down is to pay it weird money," Green explains.

"Some of the lyrics are from my epic poem, Carnival Machine, that I released last year on Calipso Press. "Vending Intro" is a long winding orchestral prelude to the "Vending Machine" song - it's a development of the sort of theatre music I composed for my Musik For A Play album in 2009. A really nice thing we did with that one. Recorded with the superteam of Loren Humphrey, James Richardson, Martin Bonventre and Jesse Kotansky. Their playing is the top of the top. Couldn't ask for a better band in any universe.”

Last December, the album Moping In Style: A Tribute to Adam Green, featured cover versions of Green’s songs by Regina Spektor, Father John Misty, Frankie Cosmos, Jenny Lewis, Devendra Banhart, Sean Ono Lennon, among many others, with song selections culled from Adam Green’s solo albums beginning with 2002’s Garfield to his most recent That Fucking Feeling.