Now available to pre order! Limited edition powder pink 4 track EP on 12” vinyl record.
 
Each copy will be numbered and will include a signed photograph in the inner sleeve. Only 250 copies will be pressed so get yours now!
Please note this is a collectors item in which the artwork will form a triptych across 3 separate EP’s.
 
Product will ship the week beginning 18th of August.
 
Slow This Thing Down is an emotionally close introduction to Adamson’s next canon, showcasing her extensive versatility with evocative folk ballads and rousing heartland Americana rock. 
 
Since releasing and touring her award-winning album Landing Place, inspired by the lonesomeness of being on the road and lessons in love that life has thrown her way, Adamson has been writing prolifically. 
 
Slow This Thing Down is the second of 3 ep’s she will release before the next album Dreamviewer in September 2025.
 
Slow This Thing Down
 
Opening with nothing more than Adamson’s intentional out of phase, double tracked acoustic guitar and exposed vocal; Slow This Thing Down is a plea to apply the brakes on the uncontrollable. Hauntingly beautiful electric guitar played by Jon Mackenzie swells and rattles throughout the Sharon Van Etten style ballad as it crescendos to the understated despair of Adamson’s bleak foreboding in the closing line, “We won’t stand a chance in the cold”.
 
 
Won’t You
 
Conjuring up Tom Petty’s Wildflowers era with high strung Nashville tuned acoustic guitars, Won’t You is a raw exploration of the helplessness and delicate space between falling in love and knowing whether those feelings are returned.  Lush harmonies, piano and percussion give the track a sweet sounding 60’s Byrd’s style jangle. “You call to me and I think that I’m ready to feel how I feel but I’ll wait ’til you tell me it’s real. Won’t you?”
 
Little Bird
 
Little Bird explores the darker sound of Americana with the glorious addition of banjo played by Ashley Campbell, daughter of country music legend Glen Campbell . The clip-clop rhythm of Mackenzie’s electric guitar and Campbell’s intertwined banjo drive the instrumentation along, reminiscent of something that would fit on Krauss/Plant’s album Raising Sand. “The pain you feel may go unheard but the songs you sing will heal the sorrow.”
 
 
Shake
 
The stark honesty and instrumental sparseness on Adamson’s closing track Shake is delicate, personal and reminiscent.
“Raising a child is a heavy weight, trying hard not to let history repeat.” Adamson’s voice is braced only by her Martin acoustic guitar with fleeting moments of Benmont Tench style piano creating subtle echoes of hope and despair. 
 
 
Track Credits 
 
Kirsten Adamson - vocals, acoustic guitar all tracks 
Fred Abbott - Bass guitar track 1
Andy Barbour - Piano 
Ashley Campbell - Banjo 
Jon Mackenzie - electric guitar, bass guitar tracks 2 + 3
 
Copyright Kirsten Adamson 2025