All Releases

1. Straight Edge Songs for 420-Friendly People (2011)
A 42-minute psychedelic instrumental I made in 2011; apparently, this one makes people feel like they’re high, so I released it on the 20th of April, 2011.

2. Mount Guardian (2012)
A noisy, experimental album with distorted electric guitars, tree frogs, charangos, and other instruments, recorded on the top of Mount Guardian, NY in 2010. This also includes a very early, very chaotic version of “Branch”.

3. Lullaby Screams (2012)
A dark, lo-fi album of droning acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and vocals; a lot of experiments with looping and soundscapes.

4. Blank Earth (2012)
An ambient soundscape, simultaneously chaotic and soothing.

5. Trips (2013)
Lots of sonic adventures, songs and some spoken word pieces. Some unique early versions of songs like “Midnight in Kingston” and “Stranger Dreams” (now better known as “Beautiful, Terrifying”). This album ends with two longer experimental pieces that were recorded on Mount Guardian: “Mount Guardian Return” and “Message from a Sad World”.

6. More than the Nightmare Station (2013)
3 albums in one; this one combines my now out-of-print albums Campaigning in Empty Apartments (From Room to Room), Driving at Night on the Highway, and The Nightmare Station. Some early versions of songs like “Rockport, ME” and “My Love is Away”, along with some of my early hits like “Controlling the Dog” and “Laws of Physics” that haven’t appeared on an album since.

7. Rarities (2013)
A lot of rare recordings of mine, including many that have often been requested from out-of-print albums, in addition to my 3 songs from the Dogs vs. Cats split EP I released with Phoebe Novak that same year (including a very early version of “Cannonball Becomes the One Armed Man”).

8. Icepick (2014)
A pretty solid representation of what I was doing on the NYC antifolk scene in the early 2010s; intense, high-energy, fast-paced acoustic music, which The Deli Magazine described as “the acoustic punk attack of antifolk by way of black metal”. This album includes “Horse”, “Tiger”, “Frostbite”, “Buxus”, and a bunch of other classics, including an extremely uptempo version of “Midnight in Kingston”.

9. Shriekofafreak! (2015)
The follow-up to 2014’s Icepick. Crazy & the Brains frontman Chris Urban listed this as one of his favorite albums of 2015 in PunkNews, writing: “He puts modern “punk” acts to shame. Very aggressive folk music. This is like acoustic Dead Kennedys. He sounds like he is about to snap and he barks like a dog. I think there is something wrong with him…in the best way possible.”

10. Cannonball Action (2015)
Stripped-down recordings of some of my “greatest hits” from this era, with a similarly raw and fast-paced vibe to Icepick and Shriekofafreak! but getting rid of the melodicas and bass guitars. Lots of rapid-fire vocals and fun guitarwork.

11. Transformation in the 24 Hour Deli (2015)
A selection of songs I wrote and recorded from age 8 to 18; it starts with some early recordings of songs from my first band, The Band Of The Land, and then explores a number of different musical realms from my teenage years, with a variety of experimental approaches and some more traditional rock and folk arrangements of my original songs from that period of my life.

12. Landlocked Island Rock (2015)
Some additional recordings from my teenage years; mostly songs about growing up in NYC at the beginning of the 21st century, and some that were more inspired by my adventures in experimental filmmaking (especially the song “Who is Her” and the poem “Gold Became a Useless Cover”). This has some fun songs on it, I was pretty happy with how “Bubble” and “Life on a Landlocked Island” came out.

13. Year of the Swimming Dogs (2015)
Well, my parents and I got a new dog (Apollo), so of course I had to make a new album with him and his uncle Cannonball on the cover; this was a fun one, it has some eccentric early versions of songs like “The Morgue” and “F Train Over Brooklyn” in addition to a track called “Dragonflies” that’s more in the vein of my rapid-fire acoustic style I was known for in this era.

14. Live on the Independents Tour (2015)
This was a live album from the Salford date of my 2015 UK tour with JD Meatyard. Notable for being my first release with UK label German Shepherd Records and my last release in the “Frankenguitar” tuning and style that I was known for in those years. This was also a historic gig, because it was the final gig of the legendary Hamsters, who performed with us that night and also released a recording of their set on German Shepherd. There’s also a recording of JD Meatyard’s set from that night, which is equally incredible; what a night.

15. Regenerates (2016)
A surreal anti-fascist antifolk album I made in January 2016. Dark, unsettling, paranoid, and chaotic music made to serve as a record of a dark, unsettling, paranoid, and chaotic time.

16. Arriving Flesh-Scent (2016)
This is a dream I recorded in my bedroom in February 2016. A lot of the songs blend together and the vibe is simultaneously homicidal and romantic. The second half is more romantic than the first.

17. 2 (2016)
A recording from when I was a teenager of my poem “Bath, Maine” set to music. This was one of the first things I recorded when I started making music again in 2009 after a long hiatus, and it laid the groundwork for a lot of what I’ve done since; it was inspired by the same events as my song “Pennsylvania”.

18. Outa / Orda (2016)
Also a dream, from March 2016. Everything is out of order, or “Outa / Orda” as was said in the dream. This album features The Elusive and Terrible Wendifer on clarinet, and some interesting versions of “Love Letter” and “Carlos is on Fire” in addition to some songs that are much more rare.

19. Twice Volcanicized (2016)
The last album I recorded before leaving NYC, after having spent the first 22 years of my life living in the same apartment there. It’s a summation of everything I’d been doing in my life up to that point, and it covers a lot of painful subject matter in a unique way for me. Lyrics about psychiatric abuse, homophobia, racism, capitalism, and the general dystheism and hopelessness of the time, framed with a kind of absurd optimism throughout.

20. Break the Law (2016)
The first album I recorded after leaving NYC, in my parents’ house in Oaxaca shortly before leaving for a series of tour dates in the US and Europe. It’s a concept album about the destruction of this universe and the building of the next one.

21. Hummingcone (2016)
The follow-up to Break the Law, recorded around the same time. This is a concept album about the raw material the next universe is built from after this one is destroyed.

22. Cackles (2017)
A selection of the songs I was writing during my US and European tour dates. It was recorded in Berlin, right in the middle of the European leg of the tour. There’s an early version of “Rabbit” on this one, and a song called “ZOB” that served as the inspiration for “Tiramisu”.

23. Playing Dead (2017)
A concept album about a talking cow from Kentucky named Clare, who tries to hitchhike to India with the help of her pet pigeon, Courier. This is where the song “Henry Hudson” comes from, and it has a number of other classics, including “(She’s in) a Pizzeria”, “Tiramisu”, and a 15th anniversary edition of the Band Of The Land song “Faster”. This album includes some narration recorded on cassette in the legendary Trnava, Slovakia arts space Kubik, and it’s also notable for being the first album I made with Gem on drums, and the first album I made with the producer Ben Turner. The release party took place on the Winter Solstice in the city of Tainan, during the East Asian leg of my 2016-’19 World Tour.

24. Modern Elephants (2018)
A lo-fi acoustic album I made in Oaxaca, between two legs of my 2016-’19 World Tour. This one includes “Neon Clown Avenue” and my anti-war song “Positively 42nd Street”, along with some deeper cuts from this era that have a darker vibe and reflect the kind of despair that was prevalent in this time.

25. Interdimensional Ice Cream Cake (2018)
An EP of rock and roll songs commissioned by Auden Lincoln-Vogel and Estonian Academy of the Arts for use in the award-winning short film Zorg II. My second collaboration with Gem.

26. A Place That Doesn’t Exist (2019)
An EP of anti-capitalist rock songs with drum machines and electric guitars. A fun vibe with this one, and also noteworthy because it includes an earlier version of “Pennsylvania”.

27. New Uranians (2019)
This one covers a lot of themes related to queer identity that I’d never really brought out in a song; it encapsulates a lot of the “playful melancholy” vibe that I’m more known for these days, and some songs are lighter than others, though it goes into some pretty dark territory. Written and recorded in Oaxaca, shortly after the recording of Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue.

28. Rhinoceros Crossing (2019)
I think this one has the best recordings of “Snow Globe”, “Skyscraper”, “Hoyt-Schermerhorn”, and “Rabbit”, though everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. This is also the album with “No Spine” and “Saturn Youth”. Recorded right around the same time as New Uranians and Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue.

29. Quarantine Songs (2020)
Songs recorded during the early covid-19 lockdowns; also available in video form! This one has some stripped down renditions of “F Train Over Brooklyn”, “A Letter From Our Old Friend…” and “Evil Twin”, in addition to deeper cuts like “My Friend Got Lost on the Hudson” and “Venus, Moving Behind the Sun”.

30. Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue (2022)
18 track double album of experimental rock and acoustic punk songs inspired by my struggles with suicidality and dreams of outer space. Recorded in London with Gem on drums and keys, produced by both Ben Turner and Gem.

31. Hard to Break (2023)
11 track album of indie art rock songs about coming back to life after a long hiatus. With Gem on drums, keys, and additional vocals, classical tenor James Robinson on additional vocals, Negrita Yani on accordion, and Duo Toque de Azafrán on saxophone and melodica. Produced by Ben Turner. This one probably has the best versions of “F Train Over Brooklyn” and “Pennsylvania”, and it has a number of other hits of mine from this time, including “Sparks!” and the title track. Generally regarded as my most accessible album, though I think Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue turned out to actually be more popular!

32. Cannonball Statman (2024)
An album to capture the frenetic, high octane experience of an acoustic Cannonball Statman concert in a time when a lot of our fans just don’t have enough disposable income to buy gig tickets. A number of talented co-conspirators on this one, including France de Griessen on additional vocals, Negrita Yani on accordion, and Duo Toque de Azafrán on saxophone and melodica. My fourth collaboration with producer Ben Turner. This one probably has the best versions of “Tom Turkey”, “Ghosts!”, “Carlos is on Fire”, “The Morgue”, and “Cannonball Becomes the One Armed Man” (among others). And it also has the first proper recording of my theme song, “Theme from Cannonball Statman”.

Compilations

Killing The Flowers Will Not Delay Spring (2024)
A benefit compilation for the Freedom Theatre in Jenin! This features a new recording of “Henry Hudson” and over a dozen really incredible songs from queer NYC artists in solidarity with Palestine.

The Hardest Part of DIY (2015)
Some really cool artists from the East Coast DIY punk scenes of this time, including Brook Pridemore, Teenage Halloween, and Out of System Transfer. A rare live recording of my song “The Alien” is on this one.

Songs of Experience (2014)
A lively celebration of William Blake’s 257th birthday. Featuring New York antifolk legend Debe Dalton, a number of talented friends from my generation of the scene, and rare live recordings of my songs “Tiger” and “Roadkill”.

Dogs vs. Cats (2013)
A split EP with the incredible and one-of-a-kind artist Phoebe Novak, for our 2013 US tour.

See also: Videos, Selected Filmography, Words, Photography, and Out of Print and Unavailable