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Mike Adams At His Honest Weight
12+ albums
Indianaindie rockbloomingtonindiepop
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Based in Bloomington, Indiana, singer, songwriter, and local TV talk show host Mike Adams creates a warm world of lush, self-effacing power pop with his musical vehicle Mike Adams at His Honest Weight. Adams crafts graceful and satisfying melodies with influences ranging from Brian Wilson and the Association to Electric Light Orchestra, Teenage Fanclub, and Third-era Big Star, and he has a grasp on studio technique that gives his material the suitable amount of gloss. Adams first made his mark with the simple but resourceful sound of 2011's Oscillate Wisely (he added some additional polish with a 10th Anniversary remix in 2021), and found room for more studio experimentation on 2015's Best of Boiler Room Classics. 2016's Casino Drone added a more refined production approach, and he continued to follow this path on 2019's There Is No Feeling Better. Prior to launching Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, Adams spent the better part of a decade fronting Midwestern indie pop outfit Husband & Wife, who played their final show in April 2013. Honest Weight, however, was conceived more along the lines of a solo project, with Adams writing all of the songs, then collaborating with a hand-picked cast of local musicians. His first LP, Oscillate Wisely, arrived in early 2011 as a split release between Flannelgraph and St. Ives Records. It introduced his core sound, which balanced sophisticated pop arrangements with the unpretentious goofball image Adams presented on his witty cable access
