Principal artist · Black Hills, South Dakota
Adam Ian Stratmeyer
Two solo albums — Bad Dumb and Subscription — plus a catalog that runs from punk-rooted rock into country-inflected territory. Written, recorded, and put out through Blind Text Albums. No committee, no label overhead.
Adam Ian Stratmeyer writes songs, plays them, and puts them out. That is the entire operating model — the same one the whole Blind Text catalog runs on. The material is built at home and moved through the Blind Text Albums pipeline (DistroKid and CD Baby) to the major platforms, so it turns up on streaming everywhere as the aggregators propagate. Nothing is held back for a gatekeeper; the records exist, and the links below point at them.
The through-line across the catalog is range without pretense. It starts in punk-rooted rock — direct, unfussy, more interested in the song than the sheen — and drifts into country-inflected and occasionally strange territory when a track wants to go there. These days the playing leans acoustic more than it used to; the writing hasn't gotten any more polite about it. What ties it together isn't a genre so much as a habit: keep it honest, keep it moving, and don't sand the edges off.
The Records
Two Albums, One Voice
Subscription
The anchor release and the fullest statement of the catalog to date — eleven tracks across thirty-three minutes that move through the whole range in a single sitting. If you want one record to understand what Blind Text sounds like, this is the one to start with.
Boomplay profile is live and still populating — distributor push in progress.
Bad Dumb
The dense, deliberately strange one — the record the cover art warns you about. It leans into the weirder, more explicit end of the catalog and does not apologize for a second of it. Where Subscription shows the range, Bad Dumb shows the nerve.
Feeling Fine
An earlier release that shows the raw end of the catalog — minimal production, maximum directness. Useful context for where the two albums came from.
How It Gets Out
Self-Distributed, Everywhere
Every release moves through DistroKid and CD Baby, which push to Apple Music, Spotify, JioSaavn, Boomplay, Tidal, Anghami, and the rest. Propagation times vary by platform — a record can be live on one service for weeks before another finishes indexing it. Where a specific link isn't up yet, it's noted rather than faked. Check back, or use whichever platform has already caught up.
There is no marketing machine behind any of this and that is the point. The records are the artifact; the streaming links are just the doors. If something here connects, the most direct way to keep it going is below.
Support
Keep It Independent
Direct support goes straight to the work — no label cut, no platform take beyond the processor. If a record here was worth your time, this is the cleanest way to say so.
