The discovery
Rüyalarda Buruşmuşuz
- Category: Music
- Artist: Adamlar
- Album: Rüyalarda Buruşmuşuz
- Release Date: 2016-10-27
- Label: People Make Music
- Date: 2026-09-11
- Rating: 5/5
- About Album: Vikipedi
- Listen: Spotify
About
Rüyalarda Buruşmuşuz is the second studio album by Adamlar, released on 27 October 2016 by People Make Music. Nine tracks, thirty-five minutes, and not a wasted second in any of them. The band — formed in 2014 around Tolga Akdoğan's voice and writing — had already shown what they could do on Eski Dostum Tankla Gelmiş, but this is the record where the whole thing clicks into place.
It sits somewhere between blues rock, psychedelia, and plain Turkish alternative rock, and the arrangements are deceptively simple: a guitar figure, a room-sounding drum kit, a bass that actually plays melodies, and Akdoğan on top of it sounding like a man telling you something important in a bar at three in the morning.
Track List
- Hepinize El Salladım — 3:04
- Tın Tın — 3:40
- Şakacı Birisin Sen — 3:28
- Yanmış İçinden — 3:52
- Orda Ortada — 3:42
- E Tabi — 4:26
- Rüyalarda Buruşmuşum — 3:52
- Ah Benim Hayatım — 3:58
- Acının İlacı — 4:47
The Favorites
- Rüyalarda Buruşmuşum: The title track, singular where the album title is plural, which is the whole joke and the whole heartbreak. The best thing they have ever recorded.
- Orda Ortada: The one that builds and builds and never quite releases, on purpose.
- E Tabi: Four and a half minutes of resigned shrug turned into a groove. The most quotable lyrics on the record.
- Acının İlacı: Closes the album exactly the way it should — slow, worn out, and not offering anyone a way out.
Why 5/5
Because it's one of the few Turkish rock records of the last decade that sounds like it was made by people who had something to say rather than something to release. The lyrics are funny in the way that only genuinely sad writing manages to be, the band plays with restraint instead of showing off, and there is no filler — nine songs, all of them doing a job. It's the album that made Adamlar the band they are, and it hasn't aged a day.