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| | SPIN.com: Vert Finds 'Familiar Girl' |
 | | Performing under the name Vert, Adam Butler got his start churning out electronica for the IDM scene, but on Some Beans (out Oct. 10), the British-born, Cologne-based musician boasts a new sound, one featuring vocals, piano, and even pop melodies. |
 | | Vert hasn't forgone electronic zips and experimentalism, but, on the forthcoming full-length's "The Familiar Girl," his main focus seems to be storytelling and Tom Waitsian percussion. |
 | | The song, Vert reveals, is "about a half-Spanish, half-Irish guy, Diego Moriarty -- a nice enough guy, although he has restless, shifty eyes, [and] he probably works for some kind of secret government agency...doing stuff we'd never dream is interesting. |
| www.spin.com /features/heythisisawesome/2006/09/060921_vert (162 words) |
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