Audio Production | Mixing | Songwriting

Summertime Dropouts

Album + Placements

The Challenge

A debut album written collaboratively across a large group of writers, most working remotely, over the course of a year. The challenge wasn't talent. It was alignment. Getting that many voices to agree on what a song needs, find the right parts, and let go of the wrong ones requires as much communication as it does creativity. It also requires someone willing to be fully inside the work, not just engineering it from the outside.

The approach

BS Creative wasn't just behind the board on this one. We were co-writing songs on the record alongside the broader collaborative group. Long nights of back and forth across remote sessions, careful listening through dozens of versions of the same sections, the slow unglamorous pre-production work that most people skip and that's entirely responsible for why the finished record sounds unified rather than assembled. Every collaboration was treated as a conversation. The result sounds like it came from one voice even though it came from many.

Listen Up

Explore the Album and EP! You can listen on Youtube, Spotify, or Apple Music.

The proof

Over 400,000 streams and a sync placement list that spans television, streaming, and gaming. The kind of cultural range that doesn't happen by accident. It happens when music is made with enough specificity to spread into completely different contexts and still land. Placements continue to come in today.

Still working

The album keeps finding new audiences through sync licensing years after release. In 2021 an indie film built around the band used the music as its backbone, bringing BS Creative back in to record actor vocals and handle additional arrangements for the production. That's the value of music.