Music
Glitter Circuit is Ready for Takeoff!
Glitter Circuit (2024)
Songwriting, arrangements, production, mixing, vocals, guitars, bass
Taking inspiration from the jangly twee of late 80s Sarah Records and the hyperspeed jazz fusion of Mariokart games, Glitter Circuit combines naive pop songwriting with glitched-out, sugary maximalism. Conceived as an imaginary band comprised of fictitious characters, Glitter Circuit straddles the line between tongue-in-cheek performance art and deeply earnest pop songwriting.
Pueblo
Berkley (2023)
Bass
Like an album of fading summer polaroids, Pueblo is a collection of dreamy, melancholic memories. Berkley uses the sounds of his childhood—audio from home movies, the stylings of radio-friendly pop— to investigate how his life has been shaped by growing up in a small town in the American West.
Good American Songbook
Bob Cummins Jr. (2023)
Guitars, bass, synthesizer
Self-described as bridging the musical gap between “when the Beach Boys found drugs and the release of the Nintendo 64,” Bob Cummins Jr. has a keen appreciation for music history. On Good American Songbook, he surveys a myriad of American subgenres—folk, jazz, hip hop, power pop, and country— all while telling a profoundly moving story about growing up in 21st century America.
Diagrams
Watering (2019)
Songwriting, arrangements, vocals, guitars
How does one accept the present while feeling haunted by the past? Fragile, bleak, nervous, and angry, Diagrams is a study of emotional responses to change. Finding solace in the brooding guitar rock of Duster, Bedhead, and Red House Painters, Watering reflects the agitation of transitioning from one stage of life to another.
Shakewelle Live!
Bob Cummins Jr. (2023)
Guitars, bass
Shakewelle, Bob Cummins Jr.’s debut, showcased his love for the history of pop music in a series of electronic miniatures. On Shakewelle Live! the artist expands the arrangements of those songs for a 7-person band, all captured (mostly) live at The Echo Lab in Denton, Texas.
Throat Shutters
Budapest (2018)
Songwriting, arrangements, vocals, bass, guitars
Vacillating between warm darkness and shimmering euphoria, Throat Shutters paints a psychedelic landscape of adolescence. Using the studio as an instrument, the songs here are layered with effected guitars, glockenspiels, double-tracked saxophones, and synthesizers to create an sensitive, ever-shifting wall of sound.