Music
AKTa (2025)
Does your life try too hard? Is your existential dread overwhelmingly banal? Does your thousand-yard stare summon a high violin note trembling just so?
It might be time for Mallets™! Mallets™ are the perfect addition to any postmodern post-hope lifestyle!
AKTa was specifically engineered with the silly power of Mallets™ in mind. Was it inspired by terrible, dramatic events? Nobody can tell, with Mallets™!
Special thanks to Adam Woodhams for his incredible talent and support
CREDITS
Mixing engineer: Adam Woodhams
Mastering engineer: Matt Bishop
Special ♥ to Virginie Urbain
Impromptus (2024)
Though seemingly unrelated, Impromptus is an Imaginary soundtrack to intrusive thoughts. Through synths and celestas, violins and delayed pianos, it is an empathic aerial view of the cycles we go through despite ourselves. Because as unwelcome as they are, unwanted, obsessive thoughts reveal a larger framing device.
CREDITS
Mixing engineer: Adam Woodhams
Mastering engineer: Matt Bishop
Special ♥ to Virginie Urbain
Stubborn (2022)
Sometimes instrumental, sometimes pop, Stubborn is a shuffling look back at active daydreaming, self revolt and the one thing you should always know.
CREDITS
Guitars on “The Cut” and “Fine” by Leo Abrahams
Vocals on “And Now This” by Whitney Sanchez
Vocals and Ukulele on “Signs” by Huong Su
Mixing engineer: Adam Woodhams
Mastering engineer: Matt Bishop
Special ♥ to Virginie Urbain
Inevitable (2019)
Succinct time capsule of moods & settings from 2018-2019, Inevitable serves as a literal record of accelerating scales quietly foreseen. As past models converge with what we know, Inevitable embraces its ultra rapid cycling nature and reminds us that while our fate might be tragic, the future is not.
Credits
Mixing engineer: Adam Woodhams
Special ♥ to Virginie Urbain
Y (2017)
Late follow-up to "I Can See Forever", the Y EP is a collection of 4 tracks about memories of the future and a look at our impending doom with childlike wonder. May be used as a soundtrack on your way to the shrink.
Credits
Mixed by Nicolas Saez and Julien Demoulin.
Thread based on an original idea by Julien Demoulin.
Mastering: EQuus
Special ♥ to Virginie Urbain
I Can See Forever (2015)
I Can See Forever was supposed to be a dysphoric rock debut about broken strings and IPG addiction. Or maybe a prepared piano study of a world burdened by the looming end of that last delusion called free will.
Instead, it has jazz flute and Nicki Brand, synth guitars, bongos and tasteful ambulance sounds. Instead, it features a singing AI that has never made a single mistake before recording this. And best of all, it's barely 30 minutes long!
But wait. Was this skillfully recorded in various, equally elaborate studios with a trove of vintage synths? It might as well have been with the guidance of the only critic you'll ever need: Frenchman mix master and mustachioed heartbreaker Julien Demoulin.
Credits
Mix; Julien Demoulin
Mastering: EQuuS
Special ♥ to Virginie Urbain
Finish Your Meal! (2003)
When her best friend had to leave the country forever, a little girl decided to record the both of them singing as a memory of their friendship. This is what became of those recordings. Light-headed and care-free, Finish Your Meal! means to be a loving project from Nicolas to his 11 year old little sister, Charlotte Plaisant.