New Jersey-born, Los Angeles-based Adam Melchor likens his music to the TikTok sounds asking ‘What’s the worst pain you’ve ever felt that’s not physical?’ – he’s on the feelings frontline with his diaristic ballads from his sophomore album Here Goes Nothing!
“Now I really feel like I know who I am, who I identify with and especially this album, there’s a lot more like piano involved and just very much like still lyric-focused. But there’s just like a little bit more chances being taken than before,” he said of his consolidated sound.
The record completes a satisfying journey as it travels through falling in love (and the fear that comes with it), to confessing his feelings, heartbreak and the silver linings, only to come begin again on repeat.
“The grand scheme of things, you would sort of go through this thing of like, ‘Okay like I really love you’ and all this stuff, and then being like, ‘Okay, maybe we shouldn’t do this,’ and we accept that,” he began.
“And then like, once you accept it, it’s like you. You get like one more introduction to the person and then all of a sudden you’re like back in the loop, you know? So that’s kind of what I wanted to make the album feel like, you know? In a sense where it’s like if you end with ‘Sorry Adam’, and you go into, ‘I’m afraid I Love You’, it’s kind of just like repeating the story again.”
He has built a loyal (and hilarious) legion of followers who have self-named their fandom the Squid Squad off of an Instagram Live moment through the pandemic, and who provide Adam with a healthy dose of cringe-cry memes to accompany his album’s release.
“My fans are really good at making the memes and I am basically a meme account at this point. But it does feel good to at least have them care enough to do it,” he said.
“I usually just go on Twitter and I’m just, ‘Who has the memes today?’ And they’re like, ‘Say less,’ and then they like maybe two, three hours later, I’m stacked filled to the brim with memes.”
Having just wrapped the support slot for Jeremy Zucker‘s AU/NZ Crusher tour, as well as Noah Kahan‘s sold-out US tour, Adam is cross-continentally catching more squids for his squad and continuing to get on the radar of industry heavyweights (he can count Charlie Puth and Lennon Stella as collaborators on the album).
Find out more about Adam Melchor, from his short slam poetry stint to guiltiest he’s ever felt, below.
Here Goes Nothing by Adam Melchor is OUT NOW.
Main image credit: Daniel Topete
