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Montara (2024)
Montara is the self-titled album from the duo project of Rein Vaska and Joseph Cudahy. With over 300,000 streams, the album blends elements of neo-psychedelia, dream pop, and indie folk, drawing from the lush, immersive textures of Tame Impala, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Bon Iver, and Beach House.
The album is both surreal and accessible. It’s washy and dreamlike, yet always rooted with strong melodies and catchy writing. Lyrically, it weaves a loose narrative of heartbreak, guilt, and the emotions of growing up, touching on themes of dissociation and mental health.
We recorded, mixed, and mastered the album, using vintage synthesizers and analog equipment to create a warm, nostalgic sound.
Wishbone (2025)
Wishbone sets poems from Richard Siken’s Crush (2005), a collection that came after the death of his boyfriend to AIDS in the 1990s. Siken’s poetry is visceral and urgent, driven by fragmented storytelling and extended dreamlike passages.
The nine-song cycle is written in an experimental style that draws influence from folktronica, dreampop, shoegaze, and Romantic and contemporary classical music. The singer and nine-piece ensemble perform alongside a distorted pre-tracked electronic soundscape created with analog synthesizers, guitar pedals, digital effects, vocoders, and vintage hardware emulators.
Wishbone is a place to remember a love. A place for grief and wreckage, a place of quiet, glowing moments, and a place to be finally reunited. The work confronts the vulnerability of loving in a world that is chaotic and often cruel, depicting the way love consumes—how it exhilarates and devastates in equal measure.
Metro (2022)
Metro is the first record from the four-piece Californian indie pop band, Metro. The album was recorded and produced by Rein Vaska with Joseph Cudahy and Juno Hassid.
“Their talent is only amplified by the fantastic production on ‘Her’, which tracks up processed vocals, pads and other instruments in a divine breeze.” – Pictish Prism
“Ripping guitar lines, dreamy synths and keys, punchy bass licks and mesmerizing sweet vocals: Metro’s debut single is the perfect alt-indie theme for the summer” – The UpBeat