hey i'm j from glass beach, i used to make music under the name “casio dad”.
this album began with demos written in 2015 & 2016 when i first moved to los angeles and spent almost a year living on my friend's couch. i met jonas and william on facebook after they heard the casio dad album on their college radio station in minnesota and we eventually ended up moving into an apartment together in north hollywood. after showing them the new demos i had been writing, jonas and william decided to join the band, playing bass and drums respectively, and we spent the next three years refining the demos into songs.
thematically this album differs a lot from \"he's not with us anymore\", rather than focusing so much on internal feelings, this album looks outside, in an attempt to capture the external world in all its good, all its bad, and especially all its confusion. it revels in the lack of a focused narrative, portraying multiple perspectives at once and changing moods on a whim.
the sound of glass beach is a fusion of our diverse range of influences including 1960s jazz, new wave, early synthesizer music, and emo, but all presented with the harshness and irreverence of punk music. we embrace the trend towards genrelessness caused by the increasing irrelevance of record labels and democratization of music brought about by the internet and enjoy playing with musical boundaries even to the point of absurdity.
william white - drums, vocals
jonas newhouse - bass, vocals
tony sanders - trumpet on track 1 and 5
daxe schaeffer - vocals
j mcclendon - guitar, keys, synth/drum programming, theremin, trumpet on track 14, lead vocals, other stuff too
\"neon glow\" was recorded, mixed, and mastered by cole mcclendon
all other tracks recorded, mixed, and mastered by j mcclendon / rat castle recordings
album art by daxe schaeffer
special thanks to:
daxe schaeffer, tanner & carter bransom, grant & milo, noah combrink, william gibbons (and the rest of kara’s walk home!), jackson scovel, jaxyn broussard, seal white jr, datacats, elia, amara, sam, cooper, eli, jack, ford (and the rest of young lovers!), plorf, cal, curi, chris white, cole mcclendon, and all other friends & family for your input, support, and inspiration.
