New Adventures, despite its studiocentric title, is a snapshots-from-the-road record in the tradition of Neil Young's Time Fades Away and Jackson Browne's Running on Empty. Like them, it captures a where-am-I-and-why ambience, even with its concert and sound-check material reworked in post-tour sessions. This is very much a transitional album, its feel somewhere between the chamber-folk sweep of Out of Time and Automatic for the People and the distortion-pedal party that raged on Monster. It's the work of a band pretty near its peak consolidating familiar sounds and styles while tinkering with the edges. --Rickey Wright
Track Listing
How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us Wake Up Bomb New Test Leper Undertow E Bow The Letter Leave Departure Bittersweet Me Be Mine Binky The Doormat Zither So Fast So Numb Low Desert Electrolite
