Eve Adams is Nowhere Now on American Dust

Eve Adams

“American Dust”

New album released 22nd August 2025 on Basin Rock

Watch the video for 'Nowhere Now' shot in the desert of the American Southwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV80ztlu-xE

"astral Americana hymns hovering somewhere between the dirt and the stars" Pitchfork

American Dust is an ode to the haunting beauty and timeless landscape of the American Southwest, where vast desert landscapes hold stories both stark and tender. Conjuring images of weathered plains and dust storms, it's bittersweet poetry for the lives lived in solitude and an eulogy for the American dream.

Somewhere out there in that broad and boundless landscape, Eve Adams has been living her own desert life, quietly writing the follow-up to 2021’s Metal Bird LP. Where that album sang of liminal space, the dream-like turbulence of Hollywood’s golden age, American Dust is far more rooted in traditional storytelling; a eulogy for the American Dream channelled through that sweeping part of the country that holds such power and mystery. Slipping into different and varied costumes throughout its ten songs, it finds Eve not just observing the people around her but stepping into their shoes and peeling back the layers of their quiet lives.

Adams writes from within. A few years ago she moved out there, to “the middle of nowhere”, finding a slowness that didn’t exist in the city, and she knows only too well about the mystical nature of the land and those who live within it. Weaving together themes of grit and romance, American Dust holds its focus on the bittersweet poetry of lives lived in solitude, most notably the women who sustain life at the centre of it all. “There’s something very radical about domestic life,” Adams says of this thread. “So many women live their entire lives behind closed doors, completely in the shadows. Within those lives is such sacrifice, devotion, and love. I wanted to honor that: the poetry in the mundane, the longing in the repetition. The way love survives boredom and dust and time.”

Opening track and first single ‘Nowhere Now’ invites you into this new world. An encapsulation of the album’s many meandering themes and references, it’s a song that feels scorned and scorched by the sun, a deliberation on the intricacies of heartbreak. “Stop saying I’m pretty, it makes me feel so mundane,” Eve sings as the song’s lush production gently ripples in the heat - which the accompanying video shot by Adams transports you directly into.

Eve is joined on American Dust by Canadian musician Bryce Cloghesy, aka Military Genius of Crack Cloud, who plays throughout and also helped produce the album. Musically bold and vivid, it’s an ambitious and detailed stride forward from what’s come before, the scope of the LP’s narrative reflected in the radiant sweep of the playing. On top of gentle piano and guitar, gorgeous strings drift through the album, lending the songs a woozy sense of romanticism; a collaboration with  Gamaliel Traynor (Cello) and Caroline’s Oliver Hamilton (Violin).

“The same swirling dust that clung to the covered wagons of my ancestors as they crossed the Great American Desert is the same dust my great-great-grandmother swept off her porch during the Dust Bowl of 1936 in Oklahoma, is the same dust that blows in through the cracks in my windows here in the desert, carrying stories from a time long gone,” Eve says, reflecting on the personal narrative that runs through her new album.

“It’s not just dust—it’s American Dust, the kind that settles into the bones of a family and never leaves. I think about that dust as a symbol of the passage of time. I hope this album will be part of that same current, carrying forward for the next generations of my family to find. I’ve been lucky enough to have journals and poetry from my ancestors that documents their lives during times of pure hope and pure hardship. I’d like to think of this album as a contribution to that family history.”

1. Nowhere Now

2. Couldn't Tell the Time

3. Strangers

4. Rather Be Here

5. Dirty Thirties

6. Amen!

7. Get Your Hopes Up

8. Ricochet

9. Ask Me

10. Death Valley Forever

Pre-order: 

https://eveadams.bandcamp.com/album/american-dust https://www.basinrock.co.uk/records/eve-adams-american-dust

Previous press:

"Mines the fertile ground where Hollywood noir meets Mazzy Star; think Lana Del Rey minus the Gucci deal." Uncut

"mood music for moments of solitude, best experienced without distraction" **** The Times

"LA- based songwriter takes flight...sharing more with Julia Holter, Cassandra Jenkins or Nina Nastasia" **** MOJO

"overwhelmingly effective and ravishingly beautiful" The Wire

"astral Americana hymns hovering somewhere between the dirt and the stars, between a bygone golden age and our tense present, between raw intimacy and dreamlike splendour." Pitchfork

“Californian folk-noir, jazz flecked waltzes, torch songs of surrender and tender-hearted tales” KLOF

"A beautiful album of noir-folk that positively crackles with a vintage sound" - Shindig!

"an enchanting dose of timeless, woozy and unsettling folk-noir" 8/10, The Line Of Best Fit