I have never been too familiar with much of Adam Ant's work other than his early 80's pop hits. I have read about him and his work prior as being more "Punk" and raw before the early 80's boom in popularity. I recently engaged in a conversation with with a complete stranger about music and recommended some albums by Blondie and Adam Ant that I was unfamilliar with. Both later day period albums.
While on one of my many thrift store hunts for music I stumbled across a promotional copy of Adam Ant's "Wonderful" CD. His last studio work in the past 11 years. The CD sat around for a few days up until this morning, I wake up and on this New Years Day the rest of the family is sleeping. I am looking for something to listen to in this limited amount of time that I have time to listen to music before the morning chaos of children running aound the house and cartoon land takes over. I see the Adam Ant CD sitting on top of a pile of recently aquired discs so I decided to try it out. I was in for a surprise.
I did not get the peppy, campy new wave pop tracks like "Goody Two Shoes". Instead enclosed was a mature rock record by a former 80's pop star. With help from Morrissey's Boz Boorer on guitar and ex Ruts drummer Dave Ruffy this album has a nicely rounded out mix of styles. From 70's influenced rock to Barret era Floyd influenced pop of "Alien" (my personal favorite track here). To anyone has seriously ever doubted an artist like Ant, I suggest give this record a listen.
Ant returned to the studio on 2009-2010 to record Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter which has been confirmed to be released in early 2012. His first studio album since 1995. Now, something I am looking forward to.
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