Jacket Full of Danger is Adam Green

Adam Green (musician)

Adam Green is an American singer-songwriter.Green's off-kilter style has achieved a moderate college radio following in the United States, and enjoys increasing popularity in a number of European countries, particularly Germany.-Career:Green attended Emerson College for one semester in 1998 before...

's fourth solo album, released in 2006. It revisits the string-laden melodrama of his second album Friends of Mine, mostly abandoning the uptempo country folk sound of his previous release, Gemstones.

Lyrically, the album explores the same mournful, puerile terrain as Gemstones, with Green's familiar obsession with drugs, surrealism and failed relationships.

The albums cover art is an illustrated photograph by American artist Galen Pehrson  and was featured in ArtForum

Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...

 10.6Vol-9UK The image depicts Green with a suite of illustrated characters, each character refers or symbolizes a social theorist, philosopher, or semiotician: Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...

, Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

, Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy....

, and most notable Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

 and Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...

engaged in a "dance"

In the UK, the album was preceded by the single Nat King Cole which also features artwork by Pehrson

Track listing

1. "Pay the Toll" – 2:15
2. "Hollywood Bowl" – 1:33
3. "Vultures" – 2:02
4. "Novotel" – 1:39
5. "Party Line" – 2:17
6. "Hey Dude" – 1:39
7. "Nat King Cole" – 2:32
8. "C Birds" – 2:04
9. "Animal Dreams" – 1:48
10. "Cast a Shadow" – 1:57
11. "Drugs" – 2:03
12. "Jolly Good" – 2:01
13. "Watching Old Movies" – 2:00
14. "White Women" – 2:59
15. "Hairy Women" – 1:33

"Cast a Shadow" is an interpretation of the Beat Happening song of the same name.