Personnel: Nathan Brown (piano, glockenspiel); Steven Mertens (bass guitar, percussion); Parker Kindred (drums, percussion).

Vocalists: Nathan Brown; Parker Kindred; Steven Mertens.

Issued in early 2008, just as the surprisingly successful JUNO soundtrack garnered Adam Green and, moreso, his Moldy Peaches bandmate Kimya Dawson a sudden mainstream spotlight, SIXES & SEVENS finds the New York City-based singer-songwriter working his indie-crooner mojo. With his deep voice and wry lyrics, Green is something of a slacker Lee Hazlewood of the hipster set, as revealed on the string-tinged, slightly funky "Twee Twee Dee" and the boisterous "Broadcast Beach" (where he proclaims, "Hepatitis caught me off my guard"). Though some tunes nod to Green's lo-fi, anti-folk beginnings (see the spare, Beck-like "Cannot Get Sicker"), the album is most entertaining when the young singer goes for the gloss, a point reinforced by giddily over-the-top "Morning After Midnight."

Uncut (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Green's songs are memorable and his subtle orchestrations effective, while his lovely, burnished, Dean-Martin-ish baritone voice glues it all together."

Alternative Press (p.134) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Green's spaced-out, folk-mugging...and minimal bedroom orchestration places him in an entirely alternate temporal dimension on tracks like 'Tropical Island'..."