Aaron Sprinkle

Over the course of his career, Seattle's Aaron Sprinkle has led several respected alt-rock bands, forged a successful solo career, and produced dozens of albums for a variety of different artists from <a href="spotify:artist:31HpswGOiF0Mc2wm11sIoN">Copeland</a> to <a href="spotify:artist:3nJWBJvK7uGvfp4iZh9CkN">Relient K</a>. While still in high school during the early '90s, he formed the pioneering Christian indie rock outfit <a href="spotify:artist:4kKX2Dc7HBE6fozhXYzPw8">Poor Old Lu</a> with his brother <a href="spotify:artist:7xwzQcosd8wFfzicqYSSa5">Jesse Sprinkle</a>, releasing several albums and touring until their breakup in 1996. Following a pair of albums with post-grunge band Rose Blossom Punch in the late '90s, Sprinkle launched his solo career with 1999's more singer/songwriter-oriented Moontraveler, flashing his ample production and multi-instrumental chops over the course of subsequent solo releases like The Kindest Days (2000), Bareface (2001), and the Lackluster compilation (2004). In 2001, he was hired as a producer by revered Christian indie rock label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Tooth+%26+Nail%22">Tooth & Nail</a>, where he concurrently launched his production career. Putting his solo career on hold, Sprinkle formed a new indie rock project called <a href="spotify:artist:0aXdXHxUgb1qBvOjopd8Bo">Fair</a> in 2005, and the quartet released its <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Tooth+%26+Nail%22">Tooth & Nail</a> debut, The Best Worst-Case Scenario, the following year. The remainder of the decade was largely devoted to production work, helming records by <a href="spotify:artist:6GfiCQDFYANz5wUkSmb3Dr">Thousand Foot Krutch</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6f3a43i1MJZwdjEpV1M0oH">Demon Hunter</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:5v61OSg53KaQxGMpErkBNp">Anberlin</a>, among others. <a href="spotify:artist:0aXdXHxUgb1qBvOjopd8Bo">Fair</a> returned for 2010's Disappearing World, and Sprinkle resumed his solo career with 2013's Water & Guns. His increasingly busy production schedule continued to occupy the bulk of his time until the 2017 release of his sixth solo album, Real Life. ~ Timothy Monger, Rovi