Adam Sinclair’s latest production work helps propel independent artist RJ Thompson to Official UK Top 5 spot!
Following it’s physical release in March 2021, RJ Thompson’s stunning new album featuring Adam’s production and co-writing has broken into the UK Top 10 Album Chart!
As of the week ending 19th March 2021 the album landed at number 5 on the UK’s Official Album Charts, number 1 on the Official UK Download Chart and number 2 on the Official Vinyl Chart.
Over 5,000 copies of the album have sold in week 1, sitting this entirely independently released album between major artists such as Dua Lipa and Kings Of Leon.
Taking the industry by surprise this album has earned its merit on the strength of the songwriting, production and a forward thinking physical release.
“Adam is a very hands on producer with a strong desire to truly understand the meaning of a song…to find its heartbeat and build the production around it. Lifeline would have been a very different, and much less successful, record had he not been involved.”
- RJ Thompson
Adam Sinclair is the producer and writer breaking the mould in 2021…
Record a UK Top 5 album from a home studio and without ever leaving your hometown in the North East? Not a problem when you posses the production skillset that Adam does! When RJ Thompson approached Adam about recording Lifeline he was adamant that he wanted to work fully outside the world of commercial studios, and straight away Adam got it; “if you’re going to put your life story down in music, and really pour your heart out, it makes sense to be in that place of comfort”. Armed with a few select tools and decades of acquired skills (working alongside producers such as Bernard Butler, Andy Gill, Keith Olsen, Dave Okumu and many, many more) Adam set about helping RJ to create the life-affirming album that Lifeline is.
Adam says “what interests me about production and co-writing is not slapping my stamp on something, but finding out what the artists story is, emotionally, musically, and helping to get that out”.
The Outsider
Talking about his musical development Adam says “I always felt a bit of an outsider, the indie pop producer that played jazz, the rock producer who loves synths, the folk producer who grew up on rnb, and for a long time that felt like a disadvantage. The music I produced never sounded “straight ahead”. It took a while to realise that that was one of my key strengths, it gave me a really wide palette of sounds to draw from.” He continues “I was kind of the outsider growing up too, almost painfully shy, but because I was that way I did an awful lot of watching life happen. Observing situations, seeing interactions. I think that translates into my production too; I’m not the kind of guy who stands in the middle of the room yelling “hey look at me I’m the producer!”, I’m the one who is listening. Listening to the artists story, listening to their lyrics and really trying to take them on their journey as supportively as possible.”
Growing up in the North East Adam was a fairly early starter in music and recording, starting gigging aged 11 with a prodigious young trio whilst simultaneously exploring recording through the family Tascam 4 track, before moving on to computer sequencing. Adam graduated from a highly acclaimed music degree, already with a decade of experience under his belt, and not surprisingly quickly landed a job at the finest recording studio in the North East as an engineer and in-house producer. Within a couple of years he was mixing albums for label acts and began a decade of racking up a diverse list of credits with the likes of Therapy?, Nitin Sawhney, The Unthanks, Sting, New York Dolls, Lulu James, Andy Taylor, Rachael McShane (Bellowhead), Little Comets, The Chapman Family, Frankie and the Heartstrings, Ajimal, Sharks Took The Rest, Theme Park, Slow Show, Dutch Uncles, Ellen and the Escapades, Killing For Company (Stuart Cable), The Quireboys, Joe McElderry…
Although Adam is more at home hard at work in the studio than shouting about his accolades, his recent work with the likes of Lifeline marks the start of his work speaking for itself in the wider industry and demanding that people sit up, listen up, and take notice.
“...the recording and production are spot on!”
