After a great start to our career, The Old Married Couple are ready to take things to a new level by making our debut album. We've been developing our distinct, quirky swing-folk songs and we're ready to this project.

By doing lots of research and searching, we've lined up the spectacular Adam Selzer as a producer for the project.

Adam is a producer/engineer/mixer from Portland who has worked with so many musicians that have been influential on our music and sound including Darren Hanlon, The Decemberists and She & Him among others.

Adam Selzer's production credits 

Here is a quote from Adam about the project - "I am honored to be able to work with The Old Married Couple as they embark on their new record in early 2017. I'm grateful to be able to utilize my studio, Type Foundry, located in Portland, Oregon for the project. The Old Married Couple and Type Foundry seem like a perfect fit, an affair that was destined to become a reality. The studio is home to much vintage equipment and decor, and since listening to the band takes us back in time, the coalescence of band/studio/producer is and exciting prospect. I've recorded many bands and artists that share a similar aesthetic such as M. Ward, Darren Hanlon, Decemberists, Alela Diane, and She & Him and I'm very happy to have the opportunity to create a beautiful album with songwriters as great as The Old Married Couple." ~Adam Selzer

At first we were worried about travelling all the way to Portland for the album but the more we think about it, there is no better place in the world for us (seriously, have you seen how many beards there are in Oregon?) to record.

We are working hard and saving lots and lots of money in order to travel and record but we need your help to guarantee it will be the best it can be.

We have worked out that the costs for recording/mixing etc are at about $21000 and we need your help to get us over the line and have us looking at promoting the album through videos, touring and publicity when it is released.

Testimonials

A word about Adam Selzer

"I sought out Adam Selzer because he was responsible for the sonic brilliance of many albums I'd been listening to. Knowing nothing more I booked a session, traveled to Portland OR and was happy to discover Adam to be a wonderful partner in creating the vision of my own album. Owning his own studio a Type Foundry- he has an ease of working within its space that comes through on the recordings. He's a great producer if called upon, with many innovative ideas, but I found him to be such a dogged quiet achiever that there's a productive flow to every day. I've since done many projects with Adam Selzer and have been spoiled for working with anyone else now." - Darren Hanlon

Making time to prepare: The process of making album includes a tonne of demoing, editing, writing, rehearsals etc. Gigs, work and life can often call for a lot of time. We will be creating a strict schedule of time to work on the album and communicate with our amazing producer. We plan on sharing the process with everyone which will make us accountable. You guys will make us get to work.

Getting to the studio: America is REALLY far away. Thankfully, we love travelling and are really excited to do Christmas in winter. We will be buying tickets nice and early and getting super fit in order to help us carry musical luggage through airports and to lower the amount of damage that will inevitably caused by the need to try American foods.

Choosing songs: We know its old fashioned, but we really feel that albums should be cohesive while still being interesting. As we are constantly evolving and writing, it is going to be hard work as we sift through the songs, write new ones and leave some great songs 'on the bench'. We may need to buy these songs a pizza or something so that they're feelings aren't hurt.

Feeding our cat: We adopted a beautiful ginger cat who will have the house all to herself but may get very lonely and hungry with us being away. We're going to have to figure out a way to fix this... P.S if you live in the Moorabool region and want to hang out with our cat Patti, you might want to drop us a message.