Chris Coady (born June 5, 1978) is an American record producer and mixing engineer. Born in Baltimore, Chris Coady is known for his work across several indie rock projects. After moving to New York in 2001 and teaming up with Dave Sitek at Stay Gold Studios in Williamsburg, he became a prominent engineer in the underground music scene.
Coady has worked with The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, tracking Show Your Bones and mastering Fever to Tell. He engineered Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes and Return to Cookie Mountain for TV on the Radio. His other credits include mixing Grizzly Bear’s Yellow House as well as producing and mixing Beach House’s albums from Teen Dream to Thank Your Lucky Stars.
In a career spanning two decades, Coady has worked on records from indie labels such as Sub Pop, 4AD, Warp, Fat Possum Records, Anti-, Downtown Records, Mom + Pop Music, Domino Recording Company, Dead Oceans, Atlantic Records and Concord Records. Reviewing Amen Dunes’ 2018 breakthrough Freedom, Spin called Coady “legendary”, his production having “the wallop and refinement of a globetrotting classic”.
’Mix With The Masters’ launched a series showcasing Coady's mix techniques. A 2022 Episode, recorded at the legendary EastWest Studios 3, highlighted the method behind Sasami’s ‘Make It Right’ He is currently working out of his own studio in a registered historic mid-century home in the foothills of the Los Angeles National Forest. Recent notable credits include Frog in Boiling Water by DIIV, Magic Hour by Surf Curse as well as Blondshell and Ekkstacy's self-titled albums.
Discography Artist Release Record label RoleMelttPathwaysNettwerk Music GroupMixer DIIV Frog in Boiling Water Fantasy Records Producer/Mixer STRFKR Parallel Realms Polyvinyl Records Producer/Mixer Yung Lean ft. Bladee Psykos World Affairs Mixer Future Islands People Who Aren't There Anymore 4AD Mixer The Drums Isolette Anti Records Producer/Mixer Ultra Q My Guardian Angel Royal Mountain Records Producer Blondshell Blondshell Partisan Records Mixer Islands And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs ELF Records Producer/Mixer Bunny Lowe Baby Teeth Mixer Sarah Crean Death By Laundry Awal Mixer Kevin Kaarl Per Que No Me Comprendes Producer/Mixer Blondshell Joiner Partisan Records Mixer Surf Curse Magic Hour Atlantic Records Producer/Mixer Ekkstacy EKKSTACY UnitedMasters Mixer Ekkstacy ft. Trippie Redd problems UnitedMasters Mixer Georgia Gets By Fish Bird Baby Boy Luminelle Records Mixer Sasami Squeeze Domino Records Mixer Widowspeak The Jacket Mixer Local Natives ICYMI:CSLMI Concord Records Producer Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need Felte Engineer SRSQ Ever Crashing Dais Records Producer/Mixer Methyl Ethel Are You Haunted? Future Classics Producer Ian Sweet Show Me How You Disappear Polyvinyl Records Mixer Islands Islomania Royal Mountain Records Producer/Mixer Hand Habits Fun House Saddle Creek Mixer Together Pangea Dye Nettwerk Music Group Mixer Lael Neale Acquinted With Night Sub Pop Records Mastering I Break Horses Warnings Bella Union Mixer TOPS I Feel Alive Fantasy Records Mixer Foals Collected Reworks Warner Records Engineer San Cisco Between You and Me Nettwerk Music Group Mixer Cheerleader Almost Forever Bright Antenna Records Producer/Mixer The Bright Light Social Hour Jude, Vol.1 Modern Outsider Records Producer/Mixer/Engineer The Twilight Sad It Won't Be Like This All The Time Rock Action Records Mixer Show Me the Body Dog Whistle Loma Vista Records Producer/Mixer/Engineer Mozes and the Firstborns Dadcore Producer/Mixer Roosevelt Young Romance City Slang Records Mixer SRSQ Unreality Dais Records Engineer Porches The House Domino Records Mixer Mass Gothic I've Tortured You Long Enough Sub Pop Records Mixer Amen Dunes Freedom Sacred Bones Records Producer/Engineer Toothless The Pace of the Passing Rostrum Records Mixer TOPS Sugar At the Gate Mixer Together Pangea Bulls and Roosters Nettwerk Music Group Mixer Beach House B-Sides and Rarities Sub Pop Records Producer/Mixer/Engineer Roosevelt Roosevelt City Slang Records Mixer Springtime Carnivore Midnight Room Autumn Tone Records Producer/Mixer/Engineer Mass Gothic Mass Gothic Sub Pop Records Mixer Haley Bonar Impossible Dream Gndwire Records Mixer DIANA Familiar Touch Culvert Music Mixer TOY Clear Shot Heavenly Recordings Mixer The Future Sugar Rey Pila Cult Records Producer/Mixer/Engineer The Bright Light Social Hour Jude Vol. II Escondido Sound Producer/Mixer The Bright Light Social Hour Jude Vol. I Modern Outsider Producer/Mixer Amen Dunes Freedom Sacred Bones Producer/Engineer Slowdive Slowdive Dead Oceans Mixer We Are Scientists Helter Seltzer 100% Records Mixer Porches Pool Domino Mixer !!! As If Warp Records Mixer Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars Sub Pop Producer/Mixer Beach House Depression Cherry Sub Pop Producer/Mixer Lower Dens Escape from Evil Ribbon Music Mixer The Bright Light Social Hour Space Is Still the Place Frenchkiss Mixer Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon True Panther Sounds Mixer Hooray For Earth Racy Dovecote Producer/Mixer The Antlers Familiars Anti Mixer The Orwells Disgraceland Canvasback/Atlantic Producer/Mixer Future Islands Singles 4AD Producer/Mixer We Are Scientists TV en francais Masterswan Producer/Mixer We Are Scientists Business Casual - EP Masterswan Producer/Mixer Yuck Glow & Behold Fat Possum Producer/Mixer Smith Westerns Soft Will Mom+Pop Producer/Mixer Beach House Bloom Sub Pop Producer/Mixer/Engineer Wavves Afraid of Heights Mom + Pop / Warner Brothers Additional Production Santigold Master of My Make Believe Downtown Engineer Smith Westerns Dye It Blonde Fat Possum Produce/Mix Cold Cave Cherish the Light Years Matador Produce/Mix Zola Jesus “Poor Animal” Sacred Bones Produce/Mix Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact 4AD Engineer Deadbeat Darling Belle Epoch Safety in Numbers Producer Delorean Subiza True Panther/Matador Mix Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes Original Session N/A Engineer/Mix Beach House Teen Dream Sub Pop Producer/Mix/Engineer Islands Vapours Anti- Producer/Mixer Dappled Cities Zounds Dangerbird Producer/Mixer ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self Justice Producer/Mixer Emma Daumas Le Chemin de La Maison Universal France Mixer Marissa Nadler Little Hells Kemado Producer/Mixer Soft Forthcoming Fabtone Produce/Engineer TV on the Radio Dear Science Interscope Engineer Lemonade Lemonade True Panther Producer/Mixer Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna Social Registry Engineer We Are Scientists Brain Thrust Mastery Virgin Records Engineer/Tracking Telepathe Dance Mother Angular Tracking/Mixer Golden Animals Free Your Mind Happy Part Producer/Mixer Foals Antidotes Sub Pop Tracking Mason Proper Olly Oxen Free Dovecote Mixer Dragons of Zynth Coronation Thieves Gigantic Mixer Architecture in Helsinki Heart it Races Polyvinyl/V2 Tracking/Mixing Thank You Terrible Two Thrill Jockey Producer/Mixer Celebration Modern Tribe 4AD Tracking/Mixing Architecture In Helsinki Places Like This Polyvinyl/V2 Tracking/Mixing Blonde Redhead 23 4AD Tracking Jana Hunter There’s No Home Gnomon Song Mix The Devastations Yes, U Beggars Mix Massive Attack Weather Underground Virgin Selected Tracking Gang Gang Dance Rawwar Social Registry Tracking Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones Interscope Tracking Yeah Yeah Yeahs Gold Lion/Let Me Know Interscope B-Side Mix TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain Interscope/4AD Tracking/Mixing TV On The Radio w/ David Bowie Province Interscope/4AD Tracking/Mixing Grizzly Bear Yellow House Warp Mix Das Oath Das Oath Dim Mak Tracking Soft Circle Full Bloom Eastern Development Recording/Mixing Celebration Celebration 4AD Tracking/Mixing Cass McCombs Perfection 4AD Mix Cass McCombs Sacred Heart 4AD Mix Entrance Wandering Stranger Ryko/Fat Possum Tracking/Mix/Producer Oxes Oxes Monitor Mastering Heartless Bastards Stairs and Elevators Ryko/Fat Possum Tracking/Mixing !!! Louden Up Now Touch and Go / Warp Tracking !!! Pardon My Freedom Touch and Go / Warp Tracking Entrance/Cat Power Do The Romp Fat Possum Tracking/Mixing/Producer TV On The Radio Desperate Youth… Touch and Go/4AD Technical Engineering TV On The Radio New Health Rock Touch and Go/4AD Tracking/Mixing Entrance Honey Moan Tigerstyle Mixing/Mastering Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell Interscope Selected Mastering The Drums Brutalism ANTI- Records Mixing Rey Pila The Future Sugar Cult Records Producer Xeno & Oaklander Par Avion Ghostly International Mixing I Break Horses Warnings Bella Union Mixing I Mean Us 24 Years Old of You Believe Music Mixing
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