Oh for sure, theyre fucking great. I just kind of die a little inside when i use them. Which is constantly. Because theyre great.

Anyway I’m proud of it and i think it turned out pretty good. I learned a lot and honestly kind of stoked to see what we can do next when we arent building a car while driving down the highway and can just write.

Everything is DI and MIDI, which i kind of hate on principle, but also kind of love as someone with 2 young kids and being able to record a record while they sleep. Bonkers.

I had to learn how to record and mix on the fly and it turns out that is actually a lot of work. I used zero microphones making this which is just fucking wild.

One of the most talented people I know, @chris0neal did the art and absolutely crushed it

Got some surprisingly good input from @ryanmiddleton873 despite the fact that he is @ryanmiddleton873 .

I spent the last few years recording and mixing this myself with @adamfream and John. If you add up all my spare time over those years between work and kids, that comes out to nearly 47 mins. Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering (GY!BE, Wolf Parade, etc).

Distress Beacon Artist · 5 monthly listeners.

The Distress Beacon record is now officially out on Spotify/Bandcamp/etc.! Please do me a solid and give it a listen so the algorithm is tricked into thinking we are cool.

open.spotify.com/artist/7JK1y...

FFO Mogwai, Caspian, GY!BE, This Will Destroy You, etc.
more info below:

Fuck yeah

Crazy thing is back in the day if you wanted a viola or cello on a song you had to actually go find a band nerd and convince them to play on your record, but there are actually only like 3 viola players in the world and they're all busy with symphonies and shit so I used MIDI.

Cicada, by Distress Beacon from the album Raising Awareness About Natural Causes (pre-release)

Here's another song from the upcoming Distress Beacon record, Cicada
distress-beacon.bandcamp.com/track/cicada

But what you really want to know is?

SNOWPOCALYPSE ‘25

Also it was crazy/fun learning recording and mixing in Protools while simultaneously recording and mixing a record on the fly. Lots of mistakes, learned lots. Last record i mixed was on a Tascam portastudio in 1995, we invented some shit since then

Raising Awareness About Natural Causes (pre-release), by Distress Beacon 1 track album

I spent the last few years recording a record at my house with John and Adam, it will be out soon but here’s a link to one song in the meantime. FFO Mogwai, Caspian, GY!BE. Pretty stoked. Thx to Chris Oneal for the sick art, mastered by Harris Newman distress-beacon.bandcamp.com/album/raisin...

The kids made their radio debut on KEXP yesterday courtesy of Uncle Troy and basically crushed it @kexp.bsky.social