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Los Angeles-based guitarist and songwriter Andrew Deadman grew up dreaming of making albums not streams. “I miss songs and I tried to write an album’s worth of em.”

Deadman’s debut solo album Santa Monica Airport 1987 is that eclectic and electric collection.

“I wrote and produced the songs on this record hoping they don’t belong in any time or era,” Deadman claims. The album succeeds in calling back to more authentic days gone by. Days that saw Deadman dropping out of school at 17-years-old.

Traveling the world by busking, at 20, Deadman drifted to Los Angeles, taking up odd jobs while writing and recording in a home studio.

Eventually, Deadman would release several self-produced records under the name The Temporary Thing, which eventually found their way overseas to the playlists of John Peel. Soon Deadman’s tunes were being heard on television shows such as “The New Girl,” “Love,” “Gossip Girl,” “Togetherness,” “Community,” and more.

Although Deadman was moving his music now, he was also continuing to move pianos – a different kind of music business – and a trade he was taught by his father.

Deadman developed a reputation in Los Angeles for his piano moving and also his ability to move giant vintage recording consoles. Through these jobs, he worked with Keifer Sutherland and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s band The Heartbreakers, among others.

When he found himself giving guitarist Davey Catching (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of The Stone Age) a ride from Los Angeles to his studio in Joshua Tree, a new opportunity emerged when Catching allowed Deadman to record Santa Monica Airport 1987 in his studio at a discounted rate.

Now, Deadman’s debut Santa Monica Airport 1987 is available via Chicago’s Minty Fresh Records.

Deadman compromised on the stream: hear it here.