The new album from Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, There Is No Feeling Better is out on Friday via Joyful Noise Recordings. The record is full of big bits of brash and smart power-pop, and it is one of this week's most pleasant surprises.
"Do You One Better" sounds like the sort of things bands like The Posies and Dillon Fence once offered up early in their careers, while the spry "Wonderful to Love" recalls stuff from both Marshall Crenshaw and Chris Stamey. Elsewhere, "So Faded" soars, while "No Feeling Better" works up the kind of power-pop energy that one could once routinely find in bands on these shores in the late-Eighties and mid-Nineties. If Mikes Adams at His Honest Weight makes music that earns a lot of comparisons to stuff like The dB's and Tommy Keene, that's high praise indeed, and I can think of no higher compliment to offer here.
There Is No Feeling Better is out on Friday via Joyful Noise Recordings.
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