It’s the middle of winter and Adam Moult is hiking barefoot through the snow of the North Georgia mountains, wearing only a pair of boxer shorts. This isn’t a juvenile dare — Adam is 15 years old, and the instructors at the boarding school where he’s been sent are forcing him to do this in order to ‘teach him a lesson.’ This is the origin of Bad Cop, the group Moult founded as an escape from the horror show of his teenage day-to-day at the grim Hidden Lake Academy. “The teachers at the school realized that one of the things that pacified me was letting me have a guitar for a couple of hours a day,” he explains. “So that’s where I started writing some of our first songs.”
