The dreaminess on "My Fault" by Boston based singer-songwriter, musician Adi Sun is heavy. It floats ethereally on lush guitar melodies standing pretty but edgy too and when big power chords erupt there is an exquisite musicality present that feels commanding. All the while Adi Sun's vocal aesthetic is tender, sadly drawn and utterly self aware. It is a controlled performance, sweeping in scope but also very intimate. Within this lush guitar dominion and reflective narrative, I actually flashed on Prince and maybe too, because to me, the song has a sort of late 80's vibe. It definitely does not rest on current pop tropes, it feels more sincere than that. Of the track Sun shares:
“I’ve never been this vulnerable on record”, adding, ’My Fault’ is a personal reflection on a very specific moment in my life when true love slipped through my fingers”
In eighteen months time, Sun fell in love, suffered heartbreak, fell ill with shingles, stepped away from her alt-indie shoegaze band Phenomenal Sun, came out as transgender and embarked on a solo career. Previously, I wrote about Sun's debut release here [Adi Sun debuts post rock prog manifestations on the dreamy "Bella Sun Lever"]. I can imagine that Sun's transformation, evolution really, is integral to the power and truth of her music. You can feel it in her words, in the suspended drama of those guitar chords and the layered vox that flood over your senses on "My Fault". It's elegant production (so sonically rich) and Sun's decision to throw down an acoustic lead as opposed to an electric one in such a powerhouse of a song is brilliant. It is more bareness, naked emotions before the song ascends into it's heavy crescendo.
"This song came with many tears" says Sun. "I think my hopeless romantic side got the best of me. I'm still learning to wade through the illusions and glamour of love. This is for anyone and everyone who's experienced both sides of heartbreak. The lyrics may seem pretty straightforward, but there are a few hidden allusions that only my muse and I can descry. I think I'd like to keep it that way."
-Robb Donker Curtius
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In the last eighteen months Boston Music Awards nominee Adi Sun (she/they) fell in love, suffered heartbreak, fell ill with shingles, quit her own band, came out as transgender, and still managed to write and record new music for her emerging solo career. A powerful presence in the Boston music scene, Adi Sun's anticipated second single My Fault is set for release on February 19th and promises a new perspective into her emotionally direct songwriting style. "This song came with many tears" says Sun. "I think my hopeless romantic side got the best of me. I'm still learning to wade through the illusions and glamour of love. This is for anyone and everyone who's experienced both sides of heartbreak. The lyrics may seem pretty straightforward, but there are a few hidden allusions that only my muse and I can descry. I think I'd like to keep it that way."
Adi Sun was the creative force behind alt-indie shoegaze band Phenomenal Sun who's appearance on the Boston music scene in 2017 brought five singles and multiple live performances including a semi-finals appearance at the 2019 Rock & Roll Rumble. In summer 2019 Adi Sun left PS to pursue a solo career which kicked-off with the release of her debut single Bella Sun Lever in July 2020 and drew local and national attention (click here for local press article). Boston radio icon and author Carter Alan of iHeartRadio said of Bella Sun Lever "Shape-shifting Adi Sun reinvents again on "Bella Sun Lever" opting for less of a prismatic dance groove and instead utilizing a focused 5-note guitar motif. "Bella Sun Lever" builds to a towering cumulus of [Pink] Floydian heights". The Single led Sun to a nomination for singer-songwriter of the year at the 2020 Boston Music Awards and came in at #1 in two local best-of-2020 radio countdown podcasts.
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