About Me

Hello, I'm Brady! I make music, and take photos. I've been taking photos for seven years, and making/recording music for six years.

Consider this blog a hub for all the things I do. You can find older, soon-to-be-publicized solo music, links to all my social media, and posts about various things in my life. I'll probably start posting about stuff that felt weird to put on social media, like hobbies I'm getting into, looking through old artwork, and general updates about what I've been up to.

Thanks for taking a look! Below are all the projects and releases I've been credited on, plus links and little blurbs about them, excluding singles already included on releases.

2017:

Brady Matteson - Basement

First-ever recordings, mostly acoustic.

Brady Matteson - Rebound: Initial

First foray into ambient/electronic work, with the entire second half consisting of drum tracks.

Brady Matteson - The Exorcism & The Veto

Second dip into acoustic recordings.

Brady Matteson - Pins EP

This one is all over the map. I guess ambient AND acoustic? I'm not too crazy on this one.

2018:

Brady Matteson - Rebound, Vol. 1-3

Now we're talking. These three volumes under the Rebound title were supposed to be snippets of soundtrack work for a class project that fell through.

Left In The Rain - Demons Don't Dance (Single)

My first contribution to rock project Left In The Rain. Performed drums and did backup vocals.

Brady Matteson - Metal Box EP

Ahhh, yet another trip down the ambient road using a REAL drone synth, an alarm clock, and a shitty Casio keyboard. Good times.

Left In The Rain - Fourty-Eight EP

Debut EP from Left In The Rain, contributed drums, a brief guitar solo, and guitar pedals.

Brady Matteson - Momentary

YET ANOTHER trip down the ambient road, dear lord. You can probably skip it.

Vanity Contest - Blinded (standalone single)

THE FIRST VANITY CONTEST SINGLE. Contributed synths and production.

2019:

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (Vanity Contest Mixes)

Some of my first public remixes. Remixed and re-tooled the tracks Head Down, Discipline, and 1,000,000. Particularly proud of that 1,000,000 mix, it's got a hell of a groove.

Oddentity - Real W Me (Vanity Contest Mix)

This one was actually done for a contest! Remixed a track by a friend of mine that goes by Oddentity. Neat little remix. I swear to god we're getting to the meatier contributions, I PROMISE.

Vanity Contest - Breaking Distance

OH YEAH. THE FIRST VANITY CONTEST RECORD. I HAVE SOME STORIES ABOUT THIS ONE. Self-produced this album. Recorded it, wrote songs for it, did the artwork for this, designed the packaging, packaged said packages. Fun times. I'll spill some nice nostalgia bits about this album soon, I promise! Also: the only release to feature guitarist/cool person Mayaan Skomsvold.

Vanity Contest - Hospice For The Lonely EP

The follow-up to Breaking Distance. Again, produced, recorded, and wrote it. Now with bandmate Elijah Diaz! I also have some cool stories about this one too. Side note: first release to get any notoriety on a blog called The Deli, for the single "Coil (The Doomsday Disco)." See also: the instrumental versions of these tracks. Still immensely proud of the quality of this EP for the time.

2020:

Vanity Contest - I Do Not Want This (standalone single)

The first Vanity Contest single of 2020. Didn't feel right for an album, or an EP so it was standalone. Actually gained some decent traction on this one, according to our Spotify data! This track was also featured on The Deli. We were so naive as to what was around the corner for us.

Vanity Contest - Awaken (standalone single)

This single always felt a bit overlooked. Released well into month three or four of lockdown. I don't remember exactly, time is a blur. Noisy. Loud. Good times. Produced, recorded, wrote. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Vanity Contest - Reviewer Beware

My first TRUE foray into soundtrack work. Production, recording, songwriting, packaging... I'm sensing a pattern here.

Traci Trouble - Life (feat. Brady Matteson)

I contributed synths to a friend of mine's track. FOR ONCE I DIDN'T PRODUCE, WRITE OR PACKAGE THIS RELEASE!!!

These Lights Are Killing Me - The Difference Between You and Me Demos

Unfinished demos from a project that's been on the back burner. All in due time.

Brady Matteson - Thought Journal

First publicized bit of solo work. Do I need to say what I did here? I think you get the point.

2021:

Brady Matteson - Sleeper

My second solo album. The second side of the same coin of Thought Journal. More on that later. First release to be put on cassette tape!

Brady Matteson - Kankakee Arts Fest 7/10/21

First live EP. Debuted new material, a cut off of Thought Journal, as well as a medley of tracks from Sleeper.

Brady Matteson - Birdsong

Dropped for August's Bandcamp Friday. A mesh of field recordings from parks and soft synth textures. Real zen vibes. You could probably meditate to this one if you wanted.

Vanity Contest - Eyes Open

The return single! Slowly but surely coming back. Glitchy, groovy, killer track. more to come from this sound.

2022:

Brady Matteson - A Burning Decay

Condensed anxiety. Year Zero is here.

Vanity Contest - illinois//alberta (vanitycontestmix)

Made this a few years ago and only just recently put it out. Dark, doom 'n gloom synths and the visceral screams of YAAMC paired extremely well.

Brady Matteson - Rubine

Third solo record. Different vibes, fuzzier synths, longer passages. A comfort record, if you will.

Nick Feltes & Brady Matteson - in a daydream

FIRST COLLAB TRACK WITH NICK! LETSGOOOOO

Vanity Contest - Heart/Down