1. Hamburger Helper
2. Disko Waste
3. Bumpin' Uglies (rokout city)
4. Best Thing
5. Parking Meters
6. Poor Decision-Making Skills
7. Alligator King
8. Pretzel
9. "The Adam Show" theme song
10. Zygote
Adam Flaherty is an ambitious 20-year-old musician from Portland, Maine. In 2000 he released his first album "The Cusp of Reality" which featured his first attempts at writing and recording original music, but on Valentines Day 2003, he put out the long-awaited "Sleep and Spell,"
a delicious mix of original antifolk tracks old and new. The strangely
passionate and awkwardly catchy album reflects his childhood with a mixture of instruments and effects such as the kazoo and his keyboard's built-in drum machine. The melodic slash cacophonic collection of songs shows his growth as a musician from his days recording lo-fi covers on an analog four-track in his bedroom to playing out and recording original antifolk tunes for a growing local and internet fan base through continuous play on college radio stations such as WUNH, WMPG, and WRBC of Bates College.
Adam is strongly influenced by many of the artists of the AFNY movement such as Beck, The Moldy Peaches, Turner Cody and Ben Kweller as well as bands like Cake, Sean Lennon, Johnny Cash, Chris Ballew (PUSA), MC Paul Barman, 6gig, and Calvin Johnson of K Records fame, however his original songs have a distinct, perhaps semi-sweet, flavor of their own and cannot be compared to his musical influences.
