ADJY Credit: Photo via Triple Crown Records
If you’re looking for a band that cares not for its origin story and more for the music it makes, look no further than ADJY, which plays Tampa’s Hooch and Hive on Saturday, March 12.

The Appalachia chamber-pop band has the kind of bio that would confuse James Joyce, and a sound that’s as complicated as principal Christopher Noyes’ lyrics. ADJY’s 2021 album The Idyll Opus (I​-​VI) features a 17-minute closer (“Eve Beneath the Maple Tree”) and a six-minute canon version of older music (“In Media Res (Between Longing and Mystery)”) all driven by a mountain-born ensemble featuring contrabass, fiddle, cello, harp, various woodwinds and horns, and even a sawblade.

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If Joni Mitchell was born in the Pitchfork era and liked to do mushrooms responsibly, she’d probably be in the ADJY lineup, and I definitely wouldn’t blame her.

House of I and Meare open the show.

This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...