Modal Fixture

Introducing my first solo album, Modal Fixture, available this August on vinyl and all online platforms! Pre-order here.

Modal Fixture is the first collection of songs I’ve written and self-produced. The music is made up of succinct songs, arranged with a specific blend of atmosphere and immediacy. My influences in songwriting and production aesthetic include Robert Lester Folsom, Wilco, and Dinosaur Jr.

The album title is a play on a music theory term, Modal Mixture, where you substitute a chord with an altered version of it. Anyways, I liked the play on words and was interested in thinking of the two words together in a more abstract sense. I like the idea of the words being at odds with each other, with something that is stable or fixed also being modal, modular, and variable.

I think the title relates to the lyrics in the songs, which each in their own way orbit around the ideas of living with abstractions and navigating ambiguity, recognizing the modal fixtures in life that are constant, ever-changing, and unknowable.

Written sporadically over 2016 - 2024, recorded and mixed from 2023-2024 in my home studio. Mastered by Troy Cruz.