EG Adventure Man (2009 UK 12-track CD album - Ladies and
gentlemen, Eg is about to release an album. Now, lots of albums come
out every year by obscure singer-songwriters you have never heard
of, so why should you care about this one? For one thing, you already
know the songs of Eg White. He co-wrote two of 2008's biggest, most
soulful and universally loved pop hits [Duffy's classic 'Warwick
Avenue' and Adele's sensational 'Chasing Pavements']; and his name
features in the credits of songs by Will Young, James Morrison, Take
That, Pink, Kylie Minogue & Natalie Imbruglia. 'Adventure Man'
features songs of breakdown & regret ['Broken'], character
assassination ['There's Gonna Be Someone'], drug addiction
['Whatever Makes You Sick'], surviving depression ['My People'],
romantic apology ['But California'], wry autobiography ['Weird
Friendless Kid'], the agony of obsessive love ['If You Run'] and the joy
of being an unreconstructed arsehole ['Pay Later']. And there is a
beautiful, harrowing ballad of survival written and sung nearly
completely by Alice Temple ['Pull Me Through'], which was a way of
'closing the circle')
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