Wow, what a wild 24 hours! Before Monday I was like, “well, we made it to 90% of our goal and that’s still totally still great and more than I deserve! 😀😀” but yesterday the campaign wound up blowing past 100% funding in a matter of hours. Unbelievable. Thank you everybody, especially the sweet folks in the Brad Sucks Discord for your support & encouragement yesterday.

A little progress update: we’ve got one more rehearsal while we prep for drum recording on February 24th and 25th. In the meantime I’m working on guide tracks and finalizing lyrics and getting moving on the artwork and release plan. And then there’s basically an entire album of custom cover requests to record(!). It’s gonna be a busy time but I’m excited to get at it. Going forward, I’ll be posting short updates to social media and saving longer updates for Indiegogo, my website and Patreon.

And finally, I just want to say thank you all for being cool with this way of doing things. I feel a bit cheesy asking for cash but in the current streaming era the pre-order/fundraising model seems to be the best way to guarantee there’s enough interest to do these projects. And I’m extremely grateful & validated that there seems to be.

Feel free to message me if you have any questions or comments about the campaign or album or anything. Thank you again!

Brad

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to the Untitled Fifth Album campaign! We’re 41% of the way there with 50 days to go!

Unfortunately, the first thing I need to announce is I MESSED UP!! I didn’t specify shipping on the “SIGNED Limited Edition Vinyl” perk. I feel awful about it, but if you ordered that one I’ll need to ask you to cancel & request a refund and then re-purchase the same perk (which now includes shipping). I’m very, very sorry for the hassle — don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any help with cancelling your order. 

In other campaign news, I’ve added a “Name in credits + Signed Vinyl” tier by request in case you want both of those things at once. 

Folks who posted custom cover songs: I'll be reaching out to find out what your song selections are soon!

In actual album production developments: we’ve gone ahead and started working on the songs and filming the process, so assuming things go well for the budget, we’re targeting a late February recording date for the drums, tracking the rest shortly after.

I posted a live clip of us playing the unreleased song In Trouble on Youtube if you want to check that out. (A clip of Bad Attraction from my first album is up there as well.)

Anyway other than my dumb shipping mistake, it's been going well so far and I'm optimistic. The support has been really encouraging, thank you so much!

Brad
PS: Ben & I are doing a live stream show on Thursday 8pm EST, come on out to see if I've forgiven myself by then!

Hey! I’m doing a crowdfunding/pre-order thing to press my record I Don’t Know What I’m Doing on vinyl. I’ve got some rewards including some sweet enamel “boat guy” pins:

Records will ship in November! You can check out the campaign here. Thanks so much for listening to and supporting my little album all these years ❤️