Andrew Boylan

Andrew Boylan is a Massachusetts-based musician and internet artist. Born to musical parents, Boylan got his start in music at an early age. Beginning as a drummer for his father’s New Orleans style jazz band, he got a taste of performing live for audiences before finding his own niche – multitrack music. Influenced heavily by early <a href="spotify:artist:3vbKDsSS70ZX9D2OcvbZmS" data-name="Beck">Beck</a> records like <a href="spotify:album:2Q5j7h3sIv2mk4RMZWGVAS" data-name="Stereopathetic Soulmanure">Stereopathetic Soulmanure</a> and <a href="spotify:album:1Pus5h1qGedCn4CtOuPVtp" data-name="Odelay">Odelay</a>, Boylan began recording music with no proper recording equipment, recording himself using only a video camera and pulling the audio into music editing programs. Using multitrack to build sonic worlds, he continued forward, eventually transitioning to more traditional recording techniques. Working in this intuitive way over the years while maintaining this initial creative flame, Boylan has created a sound that is prismatic and all his own.

Years later, Boylan is releasing his debut album, Gridworld. At once both an ode to the past and a modest nod to the near future, Boylan sings of missing past relations, praying to the unknown, letting go of what no longer serves, and eventually moving into the next chapter of life being okay with not knowing. With production from Charles Dahlke at Ashlawn Recording Company, the album is lush with Boylan’s multitrack layers, infused with Dahlke’s affinity towards candidacy in recording. The result is an album that is self-reflective and infused with memory, its storytelling not only heard through lyrics, but felt through sound and rhythm.