The prolific performer/composer/musician who gained notoriety via his crucial roles in such seminal bands as Magazine, The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds returns with his mighty 2008 album!

BARRY ADAMSON is one of the most original, inventive and distinctive voices in British contemporary music and Inertia is proud to release his eighth album - ‘Back To The Cat’ - an epic adventure in sound.

Barry’s new album is where it all comes together, a life’s passions poured into ten tracks that at once sound strangely familiar and yet dazzlingly new. A musical odyssey through noir jazz, sun-drenched pop ballads, fractious urban funk, devilish gospel, heavenly blues and subversive soul… not to mention a Hammond organ salute to the late, great Jimmy Smith.

'Back To The Cat' reflects a life’s dedication to the Big Themes both in music and life. It is The Big One – the boldest, most brilliant album of his career.

Barry Adamson has been doing things differently ever since he strapped on a bass guitar to play for Magazine as a teenager in late Seventies Manchester. Five seminal post-punk albums later, he went on to play a vital part in Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds. In 1987 he was ready to step out alone, with a reinvention of Elmer Bernstein’s ‘The Man With The Golden Arm’.

Barry has previously composed tracks for the movies of David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Derek Jarman and Alison Anders.

Estimated despatch 14-20 days after ordering.