Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Oscillate Wisely (10th Anniversary Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / Mp3 320 kbps | 01:21:47 | 191 / 503 MbIndie Pop, Indie Rock, Alternative, Discography and Box Sets
10th Year Anniversary Reissue on Silver Colored Vinyl, Deluxe mirror board jacket, includes CD insert of Oscillate Wisely (2021), with expanded liner notes by Eric Harvey. Bonus Video + Audio of Live recordings included in Digital . Recommended If You Like: Pedro The Lion, The Sea and Cake, David Bazan, Major Murphy, Kurt Vonnegut & Guided by Voices. For ten years now, I\’ve understood \»Oscillate Wisely\» as a play on the Smiths\’ instrumental \»Oscillate Wildly\»—itself, of course, a pun on Morrissey\’s muse, Oscar Wilde. This is not to say that anything about Mike Adams and his band rds me of the Smiths (especially Morrissey), as much as the idea that rock bands like Mike Adams At His Honest Weight take shape more or less as a thesaurus of past ideas—winking at them, borrowing them like a library book, checking them out from across the room, cloning them. But the best stuff is more ineffable, far more than just cut-and-paste. There\’s a weird grandeur to Adams\’ music, starting with that fully formed, geekily majestic 2011 debut LP Oscillate Wisely, that I don\’t hear in anything else, before or since. A sense that Adams is guiding his listeners toward a cosmic joke so personal, so inscrutable, so funny (\»funny\»), if you give him your attention. It\’s in his blood, I think. He\’s not Oscar Wilde, but a uniquely Midwestern type of deeply sincere romantic and dyed-in-the-wool goofball cast from the mold of Hoosier icons like Letterman and Vonnegut. He doesn\’t want to believe in anything, he didn\’t create this body, he loves a parade. It\’s all in fun, but it gets so personal. Onstage, Adams is gregarious and playfully self-effacing, a college town denizen telescoping backwards to the brief early 90s moment when \»college rock\» entered the corporate suite, and performers forced to become showmen retreated to the comfort of their native tongue: irony. And Oscillate Wisely has demonstrated for a decade that earnestness and sarcasm are as intricately bound in rock and roll\’s lingua francas hang-ups and chill hangs. I\’ve never heard any musician summon everything I love about being from Indiana so perfectly. And I\’m fuccking old. Eric Harvey.
CD1
01. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Bad Weather
02. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Skeletons in the Cloner
03. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — I Don\’t Want to Believe in Anything
04. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — I\’m Not Worried
05. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Sunrise
06. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Don\’t You Blanket When That Happens
07. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — I Did Not Create This Body
08. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — IIIIIIIII Love a Parade
09. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — It\’s All Been Done You Said
10. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — You\’ll Have Me As Long
CD2
01. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Bad Weather (2021)
02. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Skeletons in the Cloner (2021)
03. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — I Don\’t Want to Believe in Anything (2021)
04. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — I\’m Not Worried (2021)
05. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Sunrise (2021)
06. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — Don\’t You Blanket When That Happens (2021)
07. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — I Did Not Create This Body (2021)
08. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — IIIIIIIII Love a Parade (2021)
09. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — It\’s All Been Done You Said (2021)
10. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight — You\’ll Have Me As Long (2021)
