Mike Adams at His Honest Weight

Mike Adams at His Honest Weight – Graphic Blandishment (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:52 minutes | 466 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Joyful Noise Recordings

Mike Adams at his Honest Weight taps into the Indiana Rock Sound on Graphic Blandishment. Recorded primarily at home during These Uncertain Times®, Adams’ latest draws from influences as diverse as The Mamas & the Papas, Superdrag, Black Bananas, and Roger Miller. The result is 12 inches chock full of God’s top-shelf good stuff (we’re talking about harmony, big hooks, creative home production, and efficient attitude!). Subject matter includes literal Death, identity and anxiety, real Love, Mike’s cat Tammy, and a bunch of other stuff.
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Mike Adams at His Honest Weight – Guess For Thrills (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:00 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Dreampop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Joyful Noise Recordings

A “pop savant of the first order” (AllMusic) who “projects an outsize persona from the stage” (Pitchfork), Mike Adams has created a singular homespun entertainment universe since 2011’s Oscillate Wisely. He’s an appealingly confident showman on his cable access-style variety show (The Mike Adams Show), and an affably humble Hoosier touring musician on his podcast (Tan Van Tour Talk). As Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, he’s a hooky songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a knack for embodying contradictions. The latest in a prolific stream of recordings, Guess for Thrills gets deep, blending 70’s-inspired pop songs with synthesizer-driven atmospherics and emerging with a wild and searching album that treats ambiguity as a place of discovery.

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