Moldy Peach founder Green has proven a master of lo-fi quirk folk--his music has much of Daniel Johnson's eccentric sweetness. But new solo disc "Sixes & Sevens" is closer to Wayne Coyne's brand of weird than the folk sort. A mash of droll lyrics and kitsch-pop sonics, it entertains completely.

There's a reason that you should listen to this album with an open mind. There's a reason you should set aside everything you might know about the person who made it and pretend you have no idea who he is.

Adam Green might just surprise you with this record. He's been making music since he was 14 years old, beginning as co-founder of The Moldy Peaches, whose music can most recently be heard on the soundtrack for the hit film Juno. With each recorded output over the years, Adam's music has progressed and grown. Maybe the progression was small at times, and maybe the change was not always noticeable by the new listener, but the evolution on his upcoming fifth album, Sixes & Sevens is very significant.

Sixes & Sevens takes influence from a variety of sources? Nashville honky-tonk, bagels, Don Cherry, a gospel choir, Bonnie & Clyde, Sly & The Family Stone, Exile On Main Street, Dr. John, chinese food, Los Angeles/palm trees and more. It's the sound of an artist taking in the things around him for inspiration.

Before the recording of this album began, Adam took a trip to Nashville for another project he was working on, and during that time he was hanging out in honky-tonks, and spending time with some old-school musicians and producers ?letting their history soak into him and influence his ideas for his own record.

Maybe it was that countrified laid-back time that allowed Adam's singing voice on this record to be much more chilled and delicate. Sixes & Sevens has a mellow charm all its own."It's kind of inviting I think," says Adam, "I wanted to make an album that you could play in a car and drive across country, and it would be like a road trip album."