Adam Freedman is a songwriter currently from central Massachusetts by way of Seattle, Los Angeles, and periodically (for a time), Central Africa. Born in Detroit and raised on Cape Cod, he’s at various times been literary journal editor, a mediocre philosophy student, and a bear biologist. For several years he worked in tropical Africa studying lizards and birds, living in remote villages, eating oversized rodents, getting his ass kicked by malaria, and engaging in the occasional screaming match with drunk, well-armed gendarmes. As a result of having survived these perhaps less than stellar life choices, he obtained a Ph.D in biology. These days, he’s a computational biologist who spends a lot of time trying to figure out how to transform his 200 year old barn into a DIY performance space … before it falls down.

A few years after releasing the full-length “Best Laid Plans (Gone Wrong)”, Adam took a decade-long hiatus from music. That album was described as “Elliot Smith’s simplicity paired with Andrew Bird’s lyrical proficiency”, and “Beautiful and driving indie pop”. He just released an EP, Sisyphus, on 10/23/26. Early feedback from listeners suggest similarities to Elliot Smith, Death Cab for Cutie and Throwing Muses, while at the same time not sounding like any of them. Often struggling to succinctly describe his own music, he credits a random audience member for doing the work for him, calling it “punk Americana”.