'Love And Other Planets' - the second album from sometime member of Fridge, Adem - sees the multi-instrumentalist ripping stars from the very sky to satisfy his curious ache for the unconventional, the magical and the enchanting.  Full text...

Like his debut then, “Love And Other Planets” is open-hearted, contemplative and unassuming without ever lacking in a quiet grit and determination. It’s a logical next step for Adem, but it’s got its’ own special atmosphere and is far too inclusive to simply be “Homesongs – Part 2.”  Full text...

This time the same themes are couched in more cosmological terms.  Full text...

Whilst retaining the heartfelt beauty of his debut album, it is the subjects tackled on Love And Other Planets and the experimentation with which this is done that really shows Adem is reaching for the stars.  Full text...

Much of Love and Other Planets sounds so intimately close, it is as if my ear is snuggled into the cushioning syllables, every little crackle in Adem's voice forefront in the music. His voice is a real voice, containing the marks and scratches of real life.  Full text...

Musically, with Love and Other Planets Adem takes a huge stride beyond the parochial solo-folkie style of Homesongs, incorporating for the first time drums, which give a punchier folk-rock momentum to several tracks.  Full text...

As a unifying concept it's superbly clever, allowing the London-based singer-songwriter to indulge in passages of both naval and moon-gazing - resulting in something enchanting, celestially lovely and as effective at lifting you out of yourself for forty-five minutes as an early evening cruise in a space shuttle.  Full text...

This is an album so delicate and beautiful, you want to protect it. Shh!  Full text...

The London artist keeps his feet firmly on the ground with the album being built around his earthy indie/folk styling, representing quite a departure from the post rocking empiricism of his other outfit.  Full text...

What Adem has created is a concept album that manages to steer clear of the usual pitfalls associated with concept albums; instead of overblown musical conceits and an exaggerated sense of self importance, he has opted for an understated, but self-effacingly adventurous musical back drop and tackled his subject matter with a disarmingly vulnerable humanity that makes this quietly optimistic album all the more poignant.   Full text...

With vocals that sometimes resemble a heavily sedated Chris Martin and too many songs that drift past in a pretty but indistinct haze, Love and Other Planets never quite achieves lift-off.  Full text...

If Homesongs was domesticated and introspective—perfectly suited to Adem’s production—Love and Other Planets is its opposite. Its songs recall open fields and cloudless star-filled skies and themes of cosmic interstellar battlestar galactica.  Full text...