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P.E. – my group of electronic-pop weirdos – have announced our new album The Leather Lemon and released its first single “Blue Nude (Reclined)”. The Fader premiered the new song, calling it “soft and a little sleazy”, and the track also appeared on Stereogum (“pushing further ahead into the mutated pop side of their sound”), Brooklyn Vegan (“exploring dance music by way of post-punk and no wave”), and Treble’s “Essential Tracks” (“P.E. have some honest-to-god dancefloor bangers in them”). As I wrote in the press release, “This was one of the first songs we wrote for the new record, shortly after settling ourselves mentally and physically around the country. With all of our tour plans scrapped in the initial wave of the pandemic, the five of us decided to put our energies into writing new material for the next record, trading files back and forth in order to shape our new sound. ‘Blue Nude’ quickly became an inspiration for the rest of The Leather Lemon, something that foregrounded both the song and the sound, as fun as it was abstract.” The Leather Lemon is out March 25 on Wharf Cat Records.

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NYC synth punks Operator Music Band are back with the 3-song EP Deep Break. I mixed two new songs (Is This Reason and Invertigo), the third song was tracked with the band that toured behind their excellent album Duo Duo, and I mastered all three tracks at Studio Windows. This is a group that has always shined in the EP format (Coordination is still a personal fave), and this is yet another collection of fun/weird synth groovers. Check out Deep Break (and Duo Duo and Coordination) on their Bandcamp, and also check out L0-Rez, Operator Jared’s FX + Synth company (the Mona Lisa Overdrive pedal and Operator Modular Synth both get regular use at Studio Windows).

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Jeff Tobias – the NYC multi-instrumentalist whom you may have heard play sax/clarinet/bass/keys/etc in Sunwatchers, Modern Nature, and with countless others – has released his debut solo LP Recurring Dream. With the help of drummer Nick Podgurski and a variety of guests (covering vibraphone, flute, backing vocals and more), Jeff constructed an epic art pop album that’s both heady and playful throughout. I mixed the record with Jeff last year at Studio Windows, and am thrilled to be able to share this one with the world. You can pre-order the vinyl through Bandcamp, and stream the whole thing below – Recurring Dream is out now Strategy of Tension.

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Austin/NYC indie-rock quintet Why Bonnie are back with their new single “Galveston”. The song was picked up by The Fader, Stereogum, and Brooklyn Vegan (among others), and features a video by lead singer/songwriter Blair Howerton and Grace Pendleton. As a fellow native-Houstonian, I immediately gravitated to this song, having spent countless weekends on Galveston Island. “Galveston” is the fuzzy/twangy first taste of a batch of songs we worked on together earlier this year – mixing, additional production & recording, and mastering at Studio Windows – and it’s out now on Fat Possum Records.

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Namesake – the Brooklyn-based jangle punk band formerly known as Honduras – are back with their new album Redeeming Features. Following a string of EPs, singles, and the LP Rituals under their previous moniker, Redeeming Features is both a refinement of their previous work and a bold step forward. Stereogum called “I’m Sick” “a revved-up power-pop banger with the reckless energy of a brand-new band”, with Under The Radar and New Noise featuring the group as well. I produced the record with the band, recording pre-pandemic at Outlier Inn (where we had recorded Rituals five years earlier) and mixing/mastering at Studio Windows last year. I’m so proud of the work we did together at each step of the way, and I feel like the joy & excitement of creation really shines through on this one – check it out! Redeeming Features is out now on Get Better Records.

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Museum On The Horizon – the latest LP from NYC noise-rock-turned-industrial trio Pop. 1280 – is out now on Profound Lore. Preceded by three wildly different singles and a rush of press on Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan, the new album finds the group fully embracing their EBM/industrial-dance selves. I co-produced, recorded, and mixed the record with the group at Studio Windows over the winter…. it was one of my first in-person sessions after having to work remotely last year, and we fully dug into the studio process. Every drum machine and synth were synced – resulting in happy accidents and completely bizarre sounds – and we experimented heavily with processing (guitars through synths, synths through amps, everything through something else), resulting in something that feels very LIVE while leaning into the beats & grooves. Josh Bonati mastered Museum On The Horizon, and it’s available digitally and on CD on Bandcamp, and on vinyl direct from the label.

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Washington DC-based quirky punk trio BRNDA have released their newest LP Do You Like Salt? Bandcamp heralded it as Album Of The Day, calling it “killer D.C. art punk with a nervy sense of humor, skittering rhythms, and wiry guitars [that] hits all the right notes and the right wrong ones”, and the record found similar fans in Ears To Feed, Flood, Post-Trash, and Alt Citizen. The album was recorded by Justin Moyer at White Oak Studio in D.C., and I mixed & mastered it last year at Studio Windows (Brooklyn, NY). Do You Like Salt? is out now on Crafted Sounds – check it out!

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Pop. 1280 return with “Not Too Deep”, the second single from their industrial banger of a record Museum On The Horizon. Stereogum describes it as “a sweaty, clammy synth-punk track with a pulsating electronic beat and a feverish, paranoid vocal” and the band described to Brooklyn Vegan how “it seemed fitting to us to write a dance song in such apocalyptic times.” “Not Too Deep” is one of the undeniable groovers of the record, and showcases the experimental approaches we took with layering and arrangement in the studio while foregrounding the beat and the vocals. I produced, recorded, and mixed Museum On The Horizon with the group at Studio Windows, and it was mastered by Josh Bonati. Check out the video above, previous single “Noncompliant” below, and pre-order the album on Bandcamp – Museum On The Horizon is out September 24 via Profound Lore.

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The Apple Drop – the tenth record from avant-rock shape-shifters Liars – is out now. The LP has already garnered rave reviews from the likes of NME (“their most refined, accessible record yet”), Allmusic (“audacious, ambitious”), Pitchfork (“the best thing Andrew has done in at least a decade”), Bandcamp Daily (Album Of The Day – “a release as cathartic as a comeback and as exciting as a debut, a paradoxical reminder of how special this utterly strange band is”), The Quietus (“a beautiful, weird, heartfelt and uncanny album”), Brooklyn Vegan (Album Of The Week – “almost like all eras of Liars existing at once, a bit of sonic string theory that is immensely satisfying”), and Loud & Quiet (“one of the most compelling bodies of work in modern music”).

The Apple Drop was recorded at Oceanic Studio with Laurence Pike and Cameron Dyell, and at home by Angus Andrew (with lyrical contributions from Mary Pearson Andrew of High Places); I mixed the record and did additional production at Studio Windows; and it was mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering. I am incredibly proud of this record – it’s certainly some of my best work, and I think some of the band’s too. For even more about the record, check out these interviews in Rolling Stone and Stereogum, and the live performance they shot at Phoenix Central Park in Sydney. The Apple Drop is out now via MUTE Records.