A music producer, recording engineer, and songwriter, Adam Tilzer has over 20 years of experience working with artists like Keith Richards, Norah Jones, and John Legend. A key figure in NYC and Jersey City’s vibrant music scenes, Adam brings a deep love for collaboration and sonic storytelling.

After years of releasing music as frontman of Avon Junkies and The Defectives, Adam is gearing up to release his debut solo album Cult Leader on June 13th, 2025.

“I guess I’ve started a cult / I swear it’s the good kind,” the experimental rock artist declares on “I’m Gonna Start a Cult,” an exaltation that became the inspiration for the track/album.

Furthermore, the tongue-in-cheek title is an homage to the talented musicians Tilzer is surrounded by, and the enviable community they have created.

With lead singles “Burn It Down” and “I’m Gonna Start A Cult” out on all platforms, his third single, “The Best F**king Plan” was also just released this past May 13th and is also available.

1. Chocking on Vomit
2. I’m Gonna Start A Cult
3. The Best F**king Plan
4. ... Can’t Be Wrong
5. My Man
6. Burn It Down
7. Gram
8. Love You Til You Cry
9. Les Lius
10. And I’ll Die

With Cult Leader marking the first project built solely on what is necessary for Tilzer to say in this moment, and with the release coinciding with his 40th birthday, this musically expansive new recording opens on the heavy hearted, yet emboldened four-line fever dream poem Chocking on Vomit and then we get brought forth an aching strength within I’m Gonna Start A Cult, the boisterously driven The Best F**king Plan and both the alt-countrified balladry of ... Can’t Be Wrong and the free flowing My Man.

Along next is the rhythmically sculpted hipsway of the love song Burn It Down and that is itself backed by a melodic sway that drives Gram (a duet with longtime friend and pop-noir vocalist Giselle), the alt-pop-rock of Love You Til You Cry, the set rounding out on something that actually started as a drunken jam in 2020, the atmospherically charged, fuzzy guitar plotted Les Lius, coming to a close on the top down, summer-leaning ambiance of the guitar-driven resurfaced 2013 track And I’ll Die.

Official Purchase Links

www.adamtilzer.com