Happy new year! I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but up here in Ontario, Canada we’re locking down again for fun! Join me for a Brad Sucks live stream on the 27th, tickets here! Stay safe if you’re into that✌️
(poster by @sisc_daily)
A New Low in Hi-Fi — my first album in nine years — is now available wherever you buy or stream music! All the pre-orders and perks for backers have also been shipped!
I’m so grateful to everyone who supported the Indiegogo and for all the Brad Sucks Patrons. I was hoping to get $5,000 to cover a few costs but it wound up passing $20,000! Unbelievable. I’m really, really lucky. Having an actual budget made this project so much more manageable than doing it all out of pocket like always — maybe the next one won’t take nine years.
I hope you like the record, a lot of hard work and avoidance of hard work went into it 😂
Huge, huge thanks to Rob Cosh for his expert ear and incredible help pulling the record together, to Ben Mullin, Justin Purvis and Steve Gaw for all their contributions, jams and good times. Thank you to Jason Lytle of Grandaddy for singing on In It to Win It and for being such a cool dude, I’m still thrilled! Thanks to Natasha Allegri for Lonely ✨. Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering for his super skills and killer service. Giant thanks also to Matthew Pfahlert at The Silent P, Geoff Gibson, Allen Henderson, Jen Bernard and Nikki Phillips🖕 for all their amazing work on the art & visuals for the album and singles. Thanks to Kyra & Tyler & Kip at Tell All Your Friends for talking me up to strangers and to Nik Ives-Allison for all the free advice & fight talk 🙏
Hugs & thanks to all my family and friends and in particular to my mom Mary Ann for all her help & support, listening to me complain and giving me life that one time.
I can’t thank you all enough for listening to and sharing my music all these years, hope to see you soon, love ya ❤️
Brad
PS: Listening party hang stream tonight and record release concert stream next week!
NOW STREAMING! Fun Guy 🍄, the third and final single from ⚡️ A New Low in Hi-Fi ⚡️ (out June 10th). It’s a song about trying to use psychedelics to be a better person 🌈
Join me at 2pm EST over on my YouTube channel for the premiere of the little Fun Guy lyric video, I’ll be hanging out in the chat. I also have some stream events for the album release!
Thank you to @sisc_daily for the rad Fun guy art and thank you all for listening ❤️
The fourth Brad Sucks album: A New Low in Hi-Fi drops June 10th! You can pre-order it here!
Join me tomorrow at 3PM EST/12pm PST over on my YouTube channel for the video premiere for A Little Distance, the second single off A New Low in Hi-Fi (out June 10th).
In It to Win It (feat. Jason Lytle) is now available on all streaming services! It premiered in FLOOD Magazine:
As if the robotic pep talk that is “In It to Win It” wasn’t uplifting enough, the latest single from Brad Sucks’ first album since 2012, A New Low in Hi-Fi, is the story of inspiration, mortification, and redemption. With its Grandaddy vibes, the mumblecore indie-pop single was an excuse to mend bridges with the indietronica icons after a perceived ill-fated first impression with vocalist Jason Lytle.
“Grandaddy’s been one of my favorite bands since I heard The Sophtware Slump long ago and Jason’s been a huge inspiration for me ever since,” shares Brad Turcotte. “I wrote ‘In It to Win It’ and thought it had a bit of a Grandaddy vibe and fantasized about the idea of getting Jason’s voice on it but was too embarrassed to try and ask him.
“Jason and I interacted a few times publicly on Twitter,” he continues, “and then some fan of mine was an asshole to him and for a minute I thought Jason was mad at me and I had a panic attack so I DM’d him to apologize and he was super nice. I then cruelly exploited that niceness by pitching the song to him and he was super kind and wonderful.”
“I really really like this song…but unfortunately the joke is on Brad,” Lytle adds. “Turns out I was mad at him and his dumb fan for that thing that was said on Twitter and I vowed to do what I could to sabotage him if I ever got the chance. Lo and behold a year or so later I’m working on a song of Brad’s he asked me to help out on. Here is the joke part: You know that saying ‘the Midas Touch?’ Like, “That guy has the Midas Touch.” Well…I have “the Primer touch.” Like shitty early ’80s Honda Civic painted primer touch. All my collaborations go nowhere…do nothing…fade…rust…disappear. I’m sorry Brad. Good luck with all of the songs I had nothing to do with…but you know where this one is headed.”
Hear the result of this touching kismet below.
Stay tuned for future singles! A New Low in Hi-Fi releases June 10th.
I’m happy to announce the first single from the new album will be released April 1st, it’s called In It to Win It and it features Jason Lytle (from legendary band Grandaddy) on it. He’s one of my musical heroes and I’m thrilled to have him on a song I wrote. You can pre-save In It to Win It on Spotify here which would help the all-knowing algorithms recognize it as a song it should force other people to hear.
A lyric video will also premiere on the 1st and I’ll be hanging out in the chat, come join:
Hope you like it! The new record is called A New Low in Hi-Fi and will be released in June.
Thank you everyone for the huge support! Less than two days left in the A New Low in Hi-Fi crowdfunding campaign and it's gone way beyond what I ever hoped, holy smokes…
Just wanted to check in and update you that everything's on time and on track: Rob and I finished mixing the album last week and it's in getting mastered right now and all the art assets are nearly done and ready for manufacturing. Here's what the rejected songs cassette design looks like (by the awesome Geoff Gibson):
Excited to get all this out the door and I can't thank you enough!!
- Brad
Announcing my first new record in over eight years: ⚡️A New Low in Hi-Fi⚡️. It’s ten songs about social anxiety, alcohol, failure, healing, isolation, death and moving on — it’s fun! Out June 2021
I’m doing an Indiegogo for preorders and to raise cash for its manufacture and release. I’ve got a bunch of rewards up there you might like: vinyl, a listening party, a cassette of rejected songs, handwritten lyric sheets… have a look perhaps?
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brad-sucks-a-new-low-in-hi-fi/
Thank you for your support, I’m excited to get this record out there!
Artwork by Matthew Pfahlert
Animation by Allen Henderson
The last one was a blast so we’re gonna do it again! Doing another private stream concert, $10, 100 tickets max. December 17th!
Next Thursday (the 17th) at 8pm EST I'm gonna do a little private Zoom concert thing with my guitarist/keyboardist Ben Mullin. We'll be hanging out and chatting and playing some old and new Brad Sucks songs. I've never done a thing like this before so I can't promise it'll be good, but it should at least be a good time.
Tickets start at $10 and there are only a hundred available. Get ‘em here!
Just released! Super fun Acid Beat remix of Dropping out of School from my Brazilian friends over at Monkey in Space Records. I love it, it makes me laugh and is probably better than the original. Streaming everywhere now!
My old (classic?) cover of Goodbye Horses goes live today wherever you stream music! I recorded it in 2010 as a request and it’s been low-key popular but never officially released. I recently dug it out and cleaned it up and is now on my permanent record. Check it out on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play and other services.
If you could give it a heart, a like, a playlist, a fave or whatever, that’ll help it contend on the streaming services in these dark algorithm times.
ALSO the lyric video for Goodbye Horses (thanks to @sisc_daily for the artwork) goes live on Youtube at 2pm EST today and I’ll be there chatting, come hang!
The completely remastered I Don’t Know What I’m Doing on color vinyl is now available in the store if you didn’t get in on the crowd-funding this summer.
Also available are the I Don’t Know What I’m Doing “boat guy” enamel pins if you want to scoop one of those up.
Thank you!
Hey all, “Lonely” the song from Bee and PuppyCat Season 1, Episode 8 is now available on all music services: Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, Bandcamp and more here.
I also put a lyric video for it on Youtube
Thank you for listening 🖤
It’s my Patreon Anniversary this month and I wrote a little update about what I’m gonna be working on for the next while.
Holy smokes, the I Don’t Know What I’m Doing vinyl campaign reached 101% funded in just eleven days! Thank you so much everyone, it means a lot to me that there’s enough interest in this little record that I’ll get the chance to revisit it and issue it on fancy vinyl. Your support over the years warms my brittle indie musician heart 🖤
The campaign’ll still be running for another 50 days and the records’ll ship in early November, so you can still get in on it if you’d like one here: https://igg.me/at/idkwid-vinyl
Until then, I’ll be over here working on the remaster and packaging design and of course new songs for my upcoming fourth LP. Thanks again 💕
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 ❤️
The Out of It tenth anniversary vinyl is in the house and they look sweet and also sound sweet. Weird to think I made that record ten years ago. Preorders are 99% shipped so if you order now it’ll be in the mail to you within a week. Grab one in my store or on my Bandcamp page.
Better Than Nothing vinyl is still available as well if you want the entire Brad Sucks vinyl collection while supplies last. Be sure to include a note with your order if you want ‘em signed (by me).
(Photo credit: @thebishopgame)
