We handled production, songwriting, and engineering across a setup that most studios would turn down. Drums tracked in a basement. Vocals cut in a closet converted into a booth. The rest of the record built at the client's home. What could have been a compromise became a constraint that kept the energy live and the process intimate. Remote collaboration held the project together through pre-production, and every decision was made in service of the record Fades Away needed to make, not the one that was easiest to produce.