On Casino Drone, his 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. It's an album about the fabric of ordinary life: listening to
the radio as your car heats up on a winter morning, waking up next to
the same person for the rest of your life, getting a hug from your son.
Each line is shaped like a question mark, as he poses queries to himself
about himself and his surroundings.
