Machine Cartel
A properly DIY band, which means exactly that: we do all of it ourselves — logistics, marketing, distribution, shooting the music videos, and, somewhere in there, writing and performing the songs.
Off the clock
Bands over the years.
Before, alongside, and underneath the marketing career: a string of DIY bands, each one taught me something about audience, distribution, and doing it yourself when no one else will. Newest first.
Vii Snakes
Pronounced “Seven Snakes.” Tracks that were often political in nature, delivered with the weight the subject matter demanded.
Talk Us Down
A simple sound built to get a party going, masking often tragic true stories in the language and clichés of the genre: hometowns, hopeless romantics, and feeling like the only one who doesn’t know what to do at a party.
Glacial Black
A sound built from live studio recording, spoken-word-over dubs, and samples. We made a concept EP following a man’s descent into madness: he poses himself as an immortal messiah, only to be worshipped as one. Regretting his choices, he finds that despite every attempt to escape his own lie, it may have contained more truth than he first realised.
The Homecoming
We weren’t very good, but boy were we loud, and surprisingly popular on our scene. A big name on campus, for a while.