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His contribution to the Flexi-Disc Series \"Not No More\" is an indie-lounge, Morrissey-channeled hit single.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Not No More\" is limited to just 1000 copies, and was only available as part of our 2013 Flexi-Disc Series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mike Adams At His Honest Weight","offers":[{"title":"Flexi-Disc","offer_id":3316462657,"sku":"JNR125.4_flexi_Mike","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/products\/singles-not-no-more-1.jpeg?v=1478201617"},{"product_id":"heavyweights","title":"Heavyweights","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited to 300 hand-numbered copies on orange w\/ magenta splatter vinyl. On Side A, \u003ca href=\"\/sleeping-bag\/\"\u003eSleeping Bag\u003c\/a\u003e provides the brand new song \"Bummer School\", as well as a cover of Mike Adams titled \"Don't You Blanket When That Happens\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide B follows suit with \u003ca href=\"\/mike-adams-at-his-honest-weight\/\"\u003eMike Adams At His Honest Weight\u003c\/a\u003e contributing the new track \"dmb\", and a cover of Sleeping Bag's \"Desker\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sleeping Bag","offers":[{"title":"7\" + MP3 (orange w\/ magenta splatter vinyl, limited to 300 hand-numbered copies)","offer_id":3316495233,"sku":"JNR122_7INCH-SB\u0026MA-Heavyweights","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/products\/singles-heavyweights-1.jpeg?v=1478201688"},{"product_id":"best-of-boiler-room-classics","title":"Best of Boiler Room Classics","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e[Distro item, released by \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.flannelgraphrecords.com\/product\/mike-adams-at-his-honest-weight-best-of-boiler-room-classics-lp\"\u003eFlannelgraph Records\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIt’s been over three years since Oscillate Wisely, the debut album from Mike Adams At His Honest Weight. A lot has happened to all of us since then, but it was a particularly action-packed time for ol’ Mike. His newborn son requiring emergency heart surgeries immediately after birth (doing fine now!), his former rock band of nearly 10 years calling it quits, and plenty of other heavy things have helped shape the follow-up, Best of Boiler Room Classics, into one of the most believably moving albums to come around in a long time. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBut forget about all that stuff for a minute because we need to talk about how great these SONGS are! And these are real songs, daddy! Verses, choruses, hooks, bridges, you know, well-written timeless songs that at least some of us will be listening to 50 years from now. The same mixing\/mastering team of Adam Jessup \u0026amp; Eric Day have returned and have really taken their time to make this album sound like exactly one million bucks. The thoughtful, hard work that went into this record has resulted in something truly special, like a Midwestern Tusk made by fun, lovable people who actually get along really well. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBest of Boiler Room Classics has the subtle, earnest warmth of an album like the Clientele’s Strange Geometry but with the arena-ready grandeur of ELO’s Out Of The Blue.  While there is an unforgettable instant catchiness to these songs, there is a depth, both lyrically and musically, that makes repeated listens a delight.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWhile this is not a country album by any means, songs like “Count On It” and “Don’t Want It, Don’t Get It” find Mike’s comforting words gripping your heart like an old Roger Miller ballad. Speaking of “Count On It”, just wait until those actual strings kick in at 2:27!  It’ll do something to you! \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWhat if the GBV albums on TVT had been produced by Cowboy Jack Clement?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWhat if The Wonders songs in That Thing You Do were actually performed by The Pernice Brothers? What if Dee Dee Ramone wrote “Late For The Sky” instead of Jackson Browne? What if Todd Rundgren engineered a Cass McCombs record? Find out now, order this LP.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mike Adams At His Honest Weight","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl","offer_id":51414011604,"sku":"JNR136_LP-black_MAAHHW","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/products\/albums-best-of-boiler-room-classics-1.jpeg?v=1508254389"},{"product_id":"mike-adams-casino-drone","title":"Casino Drone","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"section group\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBronze Worlds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHobart, Chuck Manson and Jim\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lucky One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStainless Still\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderneath The Door\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrozen Car\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiem Be\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmart Marks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn The Fumes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeep My Heart Alive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeas Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eCasino Drone, \u003c\/i\u003ehis third solo album, Mike Adams at His Honest Weight emerges as both a Hoosier power-pop auteur and a poet of the Indiana everyday. He crafts supremely catchy melodies and fashions ingenious arrangements that thrum with synthpop sparkle, shoegaze drone, classic rock fervor, and sonic textures that draw from easy listening as well as avant garde experiments. And it’s all in service to sharply intelligent songs balancing whimsy and melancholy, exuberance and doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAdams recorded these eleven songs himself, recording almost all the instruments in his Bloomington living room. Music is a dominant theme on the album, but Adams has subsumed his influences into a sound that is more idiosyncratic, more ambitious, more personal—in short, more \u003ci\u003eMike Adams\u003c\/i\u003e. The long ambient opening passage of “Ideas Man,” the weightless drift of “Stainless Still,” the tangle of guitar notes anchoring “On the Fumes”—these aren’t nods to his pop heroes, but the musical signatures of a confident artist who has come into his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“This record feels bigger,” he says, “but there’s actually much less going on. Everything is simplified. Everything is sharpened. I wanted these songs to stand up without any tricks.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e- Stephen Deusner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mike Adams At His Honest Weight","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl + Digital","offer_id":19328924871,"sku":"JNR193LP","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD + Digital","offer_id":19328924999,"sku":"JNR193CD","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital (Instant download in MP3 and WAV.)","offer_id":19328925127,"sku":"JNR193_MAAHHW-CasinoDrone-Digital","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"VIP","offer_id":24971540103,"sku":"JNR193_MAAHHW-CasinoDrone-VINYL-VIP","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/products\/albums-casino-drone-1.jpg?v=1540920379"},{"product_id":"the-lucky-one-sun-pavilion-version","title":"Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - The Lucky One (Sun Pavilion Version)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"section group\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eTRACKLIST\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lucky One (Sun Pavilion Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eDESCRIPTION\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMike Adams at His Honest Weight \"The Lucky One (Sun Pavilion Version)\" - a rare track limited to 1000 copies on screen-printed 7\" vinyl. 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I have a distinct memory of my pal Brad bringing Sunny Day Real Estate and Saves the Day CDs into our Spanish class where the teacher would let us listen to music at the end of the day. I had never heard anything quite like it and it really switched me on for a while. A common practice of mine in those days was going to On Cue after payday at my hardware store job and grabbing a couple of CDs from bands I knew nothing about, but whose names I'd read on patches and t-shirts of my super cool friends at school. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne day, I picked up The Get Up Kids', \"Something To Write Home About\", and I loved it. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoon after that, I moved to Bloomington for college and had unlimited, full-time access to the internet for the very first time. I was non-stop visiting all kinds of weird and wild websites at that time, and one of them was The Get Up Kids' official site. I remember moseying over to their corner of the internet one afternoon and reading a blog-ish post they'd made in response to some reviews of \"Something To Write Home About\", which, as discussed previously, was an album I loved. They were vehemently defending comparisons to a band I'd never heard of called Superchunk. Apparently, according to the post, someone was accusing TGUK of ripping off this Superchunk band. So, I hopped on my bike, rode down to the basement of  TD's CDs \u0026amp; LPs, and snatched up the very first Superchunk CD I could find. By chance, it was \"Indoor Living\", and it cracked my coconut wide open. I started listening to \"Indoor Living\" on my discman everyday as I walked to class. I believe it was in a blowoff meteorology class I was taking that I scrawled \"new bruises aren't old bruises\" on the inside back cover of my notebook about 15 times, just obsessing over that simple lyric. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy obsession was further entrenched when I read the liner notes and realized that \"Indoor Living\" had been recorded right here in Bloomington. I couldn't believe it. I felt so connected to this music already, and reading that nugget made it feel like my next-door neighbor. I started buying every Superchunk CD and LP i could get my hands on. There's not a stinker in the bunch. And when \"Majesty Shredding\" came out after a near 10-year hiatus, and it was immediately my favorite Superchunk album, I thought this band could do no wrong.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll of this is to say, it's an extreme and unthinkable dream-come-true that Mac agreed to appear on this split 7\" with me. In terms of \"Cause \u0026amp; Effect\", it's really impossible for me to measure what an influence Mac and his music has been on me over the years. I'm so enamored, not only with Mac's catchy and thoughtful songs that hit my spot just right, but also his clear and seemingly unrelenting love for all kinds of music. In terms of songwriting, Mac writes clear hooks and thoughtful lyrics on everything he does, and he's prolific. I try really hard to do that, in part because I've seen\/heard him do it so well. I also get the impression that Mac does what he wants when it comes to music. What genre is Superchunk, exactly? It's hard to say, because it's all diverse and pulls from all sorts of influences. I want to be like that. And in terms of longevity and dedication, I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone else as consistent and steady as Mac. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is all from a distance, by the way. I don't know Mac McCaughan personally. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo, Mac, should you ever read this thing, thanks a million for taking some time out for a dude like me. It really means a lot. Thanks to Joyful Noise for inviting me to participate in this project and for pulling all the strings to make my little fantasy a reality. 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Though the album’s not short on truthful introspection, it’s an outward gaze that defines these eleven songs. In their hovering melodies and warm tones, Adams tries to make sense of an increasingly baffling world. He comes up with a couple of answers, but more often than that, he’s come up with good questions: “What if I was wonderful to love?” Could a modest getting by be enough to build a life? What if our best guesses turn out wrong? Who’s going to remember us when we’re gone? Why is it so hard to tell the difference between the good guys and bad guys? “How come the laugh track ain’t the last thing before the fade?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eIt’s the kind of record you can make only after really knowing how to make records. It’s ambitious, but never labored sounding, sweeping but always intimate. All the qualities that have made the Adams songbook such a joyful collection to engage with—the witticism of 2011’s \u003ci\u003eOscillate Wisely\u003c\/i\u003e, the playful experimentalism of 2014’s \u003ci\u003eBest of Boiler Room Classics\u003c\/i\u003e, the gigantic melodies of 2016’s \u003ci\u003eCasino Drone\u003c\/i\u003e—are on display here yet again, but they feel heightened, deeper, funnier, sweeter, and more resonant. Pulling from disparate sources, like retro-pop era Starflyer 59, ELO, the Beach Boys at their most transcendental, the Southern gospel of the Isaacs, and the dead-serious humor of The Roches, Adams has shaped these touchstones into a new world. The sock hop mysticism of “Free \u0026amp; Reduced,” the noir mood of “That’s One Way,” the lush cooing of “Educated Guess,” the daydream pop of “Olivia”—you can live in songs like these. They’re testaments to the act of creation and recreation, examinations of the glee that can be accessed by ripping up the map and getting lost: “Even if it gets so we hate that sound, if heaven isn’t great we can waltz right out,” Adams sings like a choir boy on “Do You One Better.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWhereas past albums were mostly recorded by Adams on his own, \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Feeling Better \u003c\/i\u003ewas built, slowly and over the course of a couple years, with longtime collaborators and members of the Honest Weight touring crew (with whom Adams records his tour diary\/travelogue podcast Tan Van Tour Talk). Though Adams plays plenty on the album, providing guitar, keys, bass, and vocals, it’s the least he’s ever played on an Honest Weight album. Armed with ace musicians in the room and structured workbooks custom built for the process, challenges became excitements. Adams was freed up to chase down the songs as he heard them in his head. “What’s that sound everyone’s on about,” Adams asks on the chiming “Datsun Dashes.” With \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Feeling Better\u003c\/i\u003e, he’s gathered up his ideas and given them names. He’s figured the sounds out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e-Jason P. Woodbury\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mike Adams At His Honest Weight","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl + Digital (Insert includes a 14 page booklet with lyrics and chord charts. 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Guitar, lead vocals, and interpretation by Rob Crow. Additional vocals by Robertdale III, Yossarian, and Scout Crow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMike Adams At His Honest Weight\u003c\/b\u003e - “False Memory” - Written and recorded at home by Mike Adams Additional lead guitar recorded by Zac Canale at his house Mixed by Ben Lumsdaine in AD’s basement \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKramer\u003c\/b\u003e - “Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim)” - Music \u0026amp; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. All instruments \u0026amp; voices by Kramer. 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John Dieterich: guitar, bass, vocals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJad Fair + HIFIKLUB\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Staying at Home\" - Pascal Abbatucci Julien – electronic drums; Anthony « Daffodil » Belguise - synthesizers, piano, acoustic guitar; Jad Fair – vocals; Jean-Loup Faurat – guitar, effects; Régis Laugier – bass; Music composed by Pascal Abbatucci Julien, Jean-Loup Faurat and Régis Laugier; Lyrics written by Jad Fair; Produced and mixed at home by Anthony « Daffodil » Belguise; Recorded at home by Pascal Abbatucci Julien, Anthony « Daffodil » Belguise, Jad Fair, Jean-Loup Faurat and Régis Laugier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHelvetia\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Psychic Life\" - Everything done at home by Jason Albertini.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTall Tall Trees\u003c\/b\u003e - \"You and Isolation\" - Written and Recorded by Mike Savino at home. Mike Savino - banjotron, bass, synth, vocals, mixing. Micah Thomas - drums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eC.J. Boyd + Will Oldham + The Quarantine Choir\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Savory (Jawbox)\" - Acoustic bass guitar, alto clarinet, upright bass: C.J. Boyd; Bass clarinet: Josh Bennett, Arrington de Dionyso, Bruce Lamont, Andy Rayborn; Bassoon: Carly Cassano, Mark Ortwein; Clarinet: Shannon Fields, Thor Harris; Flute: Maxx Katz; Harmonium: Sarah Ruth Alexander; Harp: M. Bailey Stephenson; Marimba: Thor Harris; Oboe: Felix Zimmermann; Lead vocals: Will Oldham; Quarantine choir: Sarah Ruth Alexander, Kendra Amalie, Karl Blau, C.J. Boyd, Sima Cunningham, Madeline Johnston, Julia LiBassi, Adam Matlock, Ko Newborn, Amber Pollard, Lauren Poole, Lilah Rose, Linus Schief, Macie Stewart, Molly Sullivan, Tara Toms, Karima Walker, Andrew Weathers. Song by Jawbox, arranged collectively. Mixed and produced by C.J. Boyd. Everyone recorded themselves in their own homes, and a few had engineering help from their partners: Ates Isildak recorded Carly, Ben Kirby helped record Amber, and Stephen Lucas recorded Sarah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKishi Bashi \u0026amp; El Ten Eleven\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Every Day Is A Sunday\" - Kishi Bashi - vocals, synths, violins. Kristian Dunn - basses. Tim Fogarty - drums. Mixed by Drew Vandenberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Ophelias\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Grand Canyon\" - Spencer Peppet- vocals, guitar, lyrics; Jo Shaffer- bass; Andrea Gutmann Fuentes- violin; Micaela Adams- drums; mixed by John Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSound of Ceres\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Enchanter (Demonstration 1)\" - Written and recorded by Derrick Bozich, Jacob Graham, Karen Hover, and Ryan Hover. 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Tammy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStay In The Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eCredits:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWritten \u0026amp; recorded by Mike Adams at home in Bloomington, IN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBen Lumsdaine recorded the drums at Big Ego in Los Angeles, CA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMike Bridavsky recorded the bass guitar at Russian Recording, Bloomington, IN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZac Canale recorded a guitar solo at his house in Bloomington, IN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u0026amp; Glenn Myers recorded flutes at his house in Bloomington, IN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eApril 2020 - March 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMixed by Ben Lumsdaine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMastered by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording, February 18, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawings by Mike \/ Layout by Aaron Lowell Denton \/ Photo by Anna Powell Denton\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMike Adams - singing, guitars, bass, piano, synthesizers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBen Lumsdaine - drums \u0026amp; percussion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJessica Adams - piano on “Out There In The Way”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZac Canale - lead guitar on “Out There In The Way”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlenn Myers - flute on “Stay In The Water”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBryant Fox - bass arrangement consultation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpecial thanks to Adam Jessup \u0026amp; Jared Cheek\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv valign=\"top\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" class=\"col span_1_of_2\" data-mce-style=\"vertical-align: top;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMike Adams at his Honest Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e taps into the Indiana Rock Sound on \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGraphic Blandishment\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. Recorded primarily at home during These Uncertain Times®, Adams' latest draws from influences as diverse as The Mamas \u0026amp; 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. Available on limited edition black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eHey, Mike, what’s up? It’s me, your friend, Jared Cheek.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOh, hey! Not much, just trying to decide what we should put in the one sheet for the new album. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eHow about I just ask you some questions about it? There’s only one person working at this Penguin Point right now, so I think our order is going to take a while anyway. It might be a fun way to pass the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOk, sounds great. Go ahead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWhy is this album titled Graphic Blandishment? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI was watching one of the “Peanuts” TV specials with my kids and caught the title, “Graphic Blandishment”, in the credits. I’d never seen it before, but it sounded great and important. I dug into it and learned that Charles Schultz invented it to use in place of the boring title, “Animator”. I guess it was a tongue-in-cheek effort to lend some credence and emotional heft to their tedious, invisible work. That reminds me of what I’m doing making records; trying to squeeze grandiose emotional ideas into catchy little pop songs. Lyrically on this album, there’s a gray mix of heavy things like Actual Death and fear mixed in with mundane things like how much I like my cat. It’s “Graphic” and also “Bland”. I love a good euphemism, and I love a double entendre even more than that.      \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWhy do you write songs? And after they are written, why do you record them? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMostly for fun, though there are some therapeutic side effects. It’s a compulsion that I haven’t scrutinized very much. It has always just happened. (see: ‘Thunder Lightning’)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eIt sounds like this record was mixed a little differently than your previous albums? Why is that??\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eUsually, I record some songs and hand them over to the genius, Adam Jessup, for his push into their artistic, final form. I did that this time, too, but I accidentally made too many songs, so we gave half of them to Ben Lumsdaine for mixing, and that batch became ‘Graphic Blandishment’. Could Ben also be a genius?? We’ll see how many copies of this record we sell…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eThere aren’t any boring songs on this album? Was that on purpose?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI am but a lowly conduit. I am merely presenting the songs that God gives to me. Luckily, this time around she didn’t pass any of her boring, scratch-n-dent, seconds on to me. This album is chock full of God’s top-shelf good stuff! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWhen they are reviewing this album in Melody Maker or whatever, what bands would you hope they compare you to?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI’m always surprised by the comparisons that my music draws, especially because I’m often unfamiliar with the touchstones. I tend to listen to the same familiar, comforting, albums that I already love, over and over again. Which reminds me; do you like John Davis and\/or Mike Herrera?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eDoes the singer die at the end of album closer “Stay in the Water” or is that something that we will find out at the beginning of your next album? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYeah, they died. But, unfortunately, they rise up like a phoenix, fresh and powerful, and even worse than before. We will hear from them again.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eI feel like I’ve heard an early version of the song “Open Heart” on some bootleg tape I bought from a fan on an Honest Weight message board back in 2012 or so. Is that possible? If so, why is it just now being released? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI’ve recorded ‘Open Heart’ so many dang times…I wrote it while I was working on the “Boiler Room” album, then recorded two different proper studio versions of it during the sessions for “Casino Drone”, but it just never felt quite right or strong enough. I kept chewing on it, and it finally got reshaped and fell into place with this album. It’s a genuine relief to have this song out of my head!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eIf one of the songs on Graphic Blandishment had to be used as the theme to a new Paramount Plus scripted dramedy based on your life, which one would it be and why?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI reckon it’d be ‘How’s The Messes’. It’s one of the few straight-up autobiographical numbers on this album, and of those, it's the one over which I can most easily envision a montage of my hilarious foibles. Licking an ice cream cone too hard that falls onto my shirt, or chasing a neighborhood dog as it runs off with my morning newspaper, awful stuff like that from my life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eAre you hovering in the sweet spot of fame and success in which you are respected and appreciated by a decent group of fans, peers, and critics while avoiding problems like creeps hiding in your bushes or having to decide how to spend any discretionary money?  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYeah, in terms of fame, I’d say so, mostly. Every now and again I have to weasel out of a conversation with an intense fan who says they came by my house and now they can’t get the tune from my doorbell out of their heads. But in terms of success, I’d say, ‘not quite’. I need enough walking-around-money to buy a new doorbell every so often. Then I’ll be happy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eAre you looking forward to playing these new songs live? Yes or no?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYes!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWho played all of the instruments on Graphic Blandishment?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAll the drumming and percussion on the album was done by my good pal, Ben Lumsdaine. My friend Glenn Myers played a flute on “Stay In The Water”, and Zac Canale played that soaring and surprising guitar solo on “Out There In The Way”. Oh, and my wife, Jessica, played half the piano track on that song, too. We sat on the bench together and she played the low notes while I played the high notes. It was a real love story. I played everything else.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eThese songs seem particularly catchy. Is that some sort of metaphor for the transmission of viruses?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA virus metaphor would certainly have been apropos during These Uncertain Times®, but no. These songs are earworms, which means they’re more analogous to like, ringworm or scabies.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWhat does your ideal music career look like? Please give a rough outline of your 50 year plan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLet’s see…I started getting serious around age 15, so that means I’m already about halfway through the 50-year plan. I wouldn’t change too much. As long as I’ve got some quiet moments to write once in a while, and enough good buddies around who find that I’m most tolerable to hang-out with when we’re playing music, then I think I’ll keep plugging along just like this. At the 50-year mark, we can reassess.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eIf you could control the way everyone listens to music, how would you choose to have someone  listen to this album? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIdeally, if we could come up with some sort of gyroscopic stabilizing device to house a turntable, then have 12 or so people board a speed boat together where we all wear very large noise-canceling headphones and zoom around a large body of water enjoying ourselves, but also paying very close attention to the music; that’s what I would choose. But that would require a lot of time and boat fuel to make sure that everyone in the world got a chance to listen, so it’s probably best that I’m not in charge of these kinds of things. Apart from that, I’d hope that people will obtain and listen to this album in whatever way feels best to them.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWhat percentage of your songs are about real events and\/or feelings in your life and what percentage are about something fictional that you just made up, like “The Monster Mash”?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFirst of all, I’m not sure where you got your information, but just to be clear - I did not write “The Monster Mash”. But, otherwise I’d say 99% of my songs are either autobiographical, or inspired by real feelings and observations from my life and point of view. I do a lot of organizing and critique of my own ideas in these songs. It's therapeutic and beneficial to my waking life outside the songs. Otherwise, I might become a Monster, and then whoever wrote “The Monster Mash” would have to go back and insert me into the lyrics, and I’d hate to put that amount of work on them.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eRemember that one time a few years ago when Mike Adams At His Honest Weight and King Crimson both stopped at a gas station at the same time while on separate tours? How did that make you feel?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI don’t think King Crimson was nearly as excited as we were. We decided to be polite and not bother them, instead we just gawked. We were also a little bit afraid that if we said ‘hello’, they might challenge us to name three King Crimson songs, and between the six of us, I think we only knew two. I felt a little sorry for them, as we six grown men huddled shoulder-to-shoulder in the warm camaraderie of our van and watched them all climb into their big, cold, giant, impersonal tour bus with their families.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eDoes Graphic Blandishment have the Indiana Rock sound? Speaking of which, could God create a chili dog so big that even they could not suck it down?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘Graphic Blandishment’ definitely has the Indiana Rock Sound. Although, all the drumming and mixing was done in southern California, so maybe it has more of the Indiana Rock feel - sedimentary and layered, full of karst features. As for God’s Chili Dog; it would depend on the size of their accompanying Tastee Freez.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWhat are some albums or books that you were listening to or reading during the creation of Graphic Blandishment that may have influenced these songs?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI read Wendy Erskine’s, “Sweet Home”, and Jon Mooallem’s, “This Is Chance”, while I was working on this album. “Sweet Home” certainly influenced the way I felt a little more free to toy with language in these lyrics, and I think ”This Is Chance” got me in the mood to Make Something while also Surviving Danger \u0026amp; Uncertainty. Music wise, I was mainly listening to Superdrag. Like, a lot.     \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDoes Graphic Blandishment sync up to any movies like Pink Floyd’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDark Side of the Moon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e syncs up with Norbit?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYeah, sort of. It’s only 38 minutes long, so if you press play on the album right at the moment that the opening credits end on any episode of “Hee Haw”, then you’re in for a real wild and hilarious enhanced romp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eThis is the 5th Mike Adams At His Honest Weight album. Is this basically the same 5th MAAHHW LP that would have existed if there had not been a global pandemic? Explain your answer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMusically, I think so. I was already chewing on making a Rock Record and sketching out some of these tunes before God sent the virus down to distract us all from the Giant Chili Dog Paradox. But lyrically, definitely not. These lyrics all became a real snapshot of the year AD 2020. Between the virus, the racial and social justice possibilities of that summer, being the dad of two young kids, and losing a few friends and loved ones to Death in a short amount of time, the need for thought-organization became urgent. The social halt of the pandemic also left me with a lot of time at home to work on this record. So, even though I had already begun working on this stuff, those early pandemic days definitely had some major influence on this album, both obviously and subconsciously.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eOh, hey, looks like our order is up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCool, let’s eat. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mike Adams At His Honest Weight","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Black Vinyl + Digital (Ltd. to 500, one time pressing. 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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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGuess for Thrills\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAfter 2019’s epic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThere Is No Feeling Better\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, recorded with a large group of his musical pals in Bloomington Indiana, Adams returned to writing and recording songs alone at home. He created dozens of new songs in his usual fashion – playing every instrument, harmonizing with himself, and generally having control over each element before sending selected materials to his long-time engineer and creative partner Adam Jessup. The tracks had copious variety. Adams pulls from an enormous set of influences, from Kris Kristofferson to Low, that make his own music “a charismatic thumbnail history of American guitar-pop” (Bandcamp Daily). One set of flashy guitar pop songs became 2022’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGraphic Blandishment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (produced by Ben Lumsdaine instead of Jessup). Remaining were a set of instrumental synthesizer experimentations and a handful of mellow singer-songwriter tunes. Somehow, they seemed to fit together as a thesis statement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGuess for Thrills\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e sees Adams on a threshold between his early music career when he exercised an admittedly-troubling amount of self-control to maintain a prolific output, and now, entering his 40s as a father of two. In these songs, Adams is interested in staving off a calcified middle age, and instead considering what could happen if he became more tolerant, open to experience, and accepting of his own failings and weaknesses. In “Pyramid Schemes,” Adams reckons with the impulse of people in his own communities to get suckered into the prosperity gospel. Over a bed of sliding guitar and a foreboding chord progression, he’s digging deep for empathy instead of judgment. “I’m not messing around no more \/ Time to feel good, time to look good, time to be good,” he intimates. On the Super Furry Animals-like “Basement Spacemen”, Adams asks if he’s “the last ape or the first caveman”, backed by an epic flurry of keyboards and pulsing drums. “Half Fool,” sonically dense with an orchestral groove and earnest lyrics that would be at home on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePet Sounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, delves with a lazy sense of danger into the eroticism of storms and surrender to selfish whims.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBetween songs, Adams included keyboard instrumentals inspired by Talk Talk’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSpirit of Eden, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eas well as ephemeral audio. There’s the sound of Indiana river clam farmers at work, found on a 1960s public television documentary. The words “loose him, set him free” in “Basement Spacemen” came from a videotape Adams had of an Easter play at his childhood church. “Golden Rule Breakdown” ends abruptly when Adams, vocals still swathed with reverb, gently reprimands his daughter for bothering their pet cat. An avid media collector with a day job at the local public access TV station, Adams wanted to share some of the soundbites and moments that play on repeat in his head and make up his inner landscape. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis combination of ephemera, vulnerable songwriting, and sonic homage to his many influences makes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGuess for Thrills \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ea new leap for Adams. It’s kicking around somewhere between levity and gravity, sincerity and satire, and retro and contemporary stylings, but with a new level of intimacy and self-realization. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e-\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJosephine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e McRobbie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mike Adams At His Honest Weight","offers":[{"title":"VIP","offer_id":45624602689846,"sku":"JNR447_VIP_Mike-Adams","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl + Digital (Includes download in high quality MP3, AIFF + WAV.)","offer_id":45624362303798,"sku":"JNR447_LP-black","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital (Digital download in high quality MP3, AIFF + WAV.)","offer_id":45624362336566,"sku":"JNR447_digital","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/files\/JNR447_Mike-Adams_Guess_web-scale.jpg?v=1687958466"},{"product_id":"slow-zoom","title":"Slow Zoom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW40483862 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW40483862 BCX0\"\u003e“Slow Zoom” is the first Honest Weight recording to feature the entire live-band lineup (Zac Canale, Aaron Lowell Denton, Jeff Grant, \u0026amp; David Woodruff), and to be recorded in a proper studio, since 2019’s “There Is No Feeling Better”. Tracked primarily live at Russian Recording in Bloomington, IN, the single also features contributions from Mike Bridavsky and engineering assistance from Jozef Caldwell, whose life since leaving the assumed security of the rural \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW40483862 BCX0\"\u003emidwest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW40483862 BCX0\"\u003e for the grand promise of the American W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW40483862 BCX0\"\u003eest has included working with Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Durand Jones, Bleachers, and Beabadoobee.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335557856\":16777215}' class=\"EOP SCXW40483862 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335557856\":16777215}' class=\"EOP SCXW40483862 BCX0\"\u003eAbout the song, Mike Adams writes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"335557856\":16777215}' class=\"EOP SCXW40483862 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW92325696 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92325696 BCX0\"\u003e“Slow Zoom” is me romanticizing a nostalgic experience I never had, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92325696 BCX0\"\u003ea time period\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92325696 BCX0\"\u003e I never lived in. 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