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The Healer (Thrill Jockey)
Hello.
My name is Matthew and I'm a mastering engineer. I love helping people make the records of their dreams.
I'm a staff engineer at Bob Weston's Chicago Mastering Service where since 2012 I've mastered and cut vinyl master lacquers for hundreds of releases from Merge Records, Sub Pop, Matador, Fat Possum, Polyvinyl, Jagjaguwar, Numero Group, Goner, and many, many others.
I've also recorded and mixed a lot of records (mostly at The Echo Lab and Electrical Audio).
Other things: I co-founded The Echo Lab recording studio in Denton, Texas. I'm a member of the bands Mint Mile and Tre Orsi. I've been Superchunk's tour manager and live sound engineer since 2010, and have done the same with Destroyer, Bob Mould, The New Pornographers, the Mountain Goats, Ex Hex, Jawbox, CHVRCHES, and others. I handle the location recording for live episodes of the Judge John Hodgman Podcast. Occasional updates at Instagram and Tumblr.
I'd love to help you on your next project. Get in touch.
Mastering Credits
You can view a relatively exhaustive list of my production credits at discogs.com.
Selected Mastering Projects
Thrice
The Artist in the Ambulance - Revisited (Miscellaneous Recordings)
Covet
Catharis (Triple Crown)
Original Cast of Stereophonic, Will Butler
Stereophonic Original Cast Recording (Sony Masterworks Broadway)
Rid Of Me
Access To The Lonely (Knife Hits Records)
Dustin Kensrue
Desert Dreaming
The New Pornographers
Continue as a Guest (Merge Records)
Bob Mould
Blue Hearts (Merge Records)
Bob Mould
Sunshine Rock (Merge Records)
Superchunk
What a Time to Be Alive (Merge Records)
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Superchunk
Superchunk (Remastered) (Merge Records)
Superchunk
Wild Loneliness (Merge Records)
Mac McCaughan
The Sound of Yourself (Merge Records)
METZ
Strange Peace (Sub Pop)
METZ
II (Sub Pop)
Pink Mountaintops
Peacock Pools (ATO Recordings)
Jade Hairpins
Get Me the Good Stuff (Merge Records)
Twin Peaks
Side A
FACS
Present Tense (Trouble In Mind)
FACS
Void Moments (Trouble In Mind)
FACS
Still Life In Decay (Trouble In Mind)
Titus Andronicus
An Obelisk (Merge Records)
Titus Andronicus
The Will to Live (Merge Records)
Songs: Ohia
Travels In Constants (Temporary Residence, Ltd.)
Pissed Jeans
Why Love Now (Sub Pop)
TORRES & Fruit Bats
A Decoration (Merge Records)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
¡Blow it…at Madison's Quinceañera! (Fat Wreck Chords)
THE GOTOBEDS
Debt Begins at 30 (Sub Pop)
NOTS
3 (Goner Records)
Radioactivity
Silent Kill (Dirtnap Records)
Mind Spiders
Furies (Dirtnap Records)
O-D-EX
"Breaker" (Dirtnap Records)
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Etiquette (2018 Remaster) (Orindal Records)
Advance Base
Animal Companionship (Run For Cover)
Bedhead
Bedhead: 1992-1998 (Numero Group)
The New Year
Snow (Undertow)
Silkworm
In The West (Comedy Minus One)
Mint Mile
Ambertron (Comedy Minus One)
Mint Mile
Roughrider (Comedy Minus One)
Patois Counselors
The Optimal Seat (ever/never Records)
Los Mundos
Eco del Universo (Little Cloud)
Los Mundos
En Vivo Desde El Centro De La Tierra (Little Cloud)
Los Mundos
La Fortaleza del Sonido (Little Cloud)
Chris Brokaw
Puritan (12XU)
Thee Conductor
Spirit of a Ghost (Sixgunlover)
Annihilus
Follow a Song From the Sky (Federal Prisoner)
Autogramm
No Rules (Nevado)
Split Single
Amplificado
Karima Walker
Waking the Dreaming Body (Orindal Records / Keeled Scales)
El Shirota
Ni siquiera estamos listos para hablar (Devil In The Woods)
Town of Lake
Lilac
for Merge Records:
- The New Pornographers Continue As A Guest
- M Ward For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward
- Bob Mould Sunshine Rock
- Bob Mould Blue Hearts
- Bob Mould The Ocean
- Superchunk What A Time To Be Alive
- Superchunk Superchunk (2017 remaster)
- Superchunk “I Got Cut” b/w “Up Against The Wall” 7"
- Superchunk “Break The Glass” 7"
- Superchunk “Our Work Is Done” 7"
- Superchunk “Break The Glass (acoustic)” 7"
- Superchunk Wild Loneliness
- Superchunk Everybody Dies
- Mac McCaughan The Sound of Yourself
- Mac McCaughan The Sound of Yourself (Acoustic)
- Ibibio Sound Machine Heroes
- Ibibio Sound Machine All That You Want (Joe Goddard Remix)
- Ibibio Sound Machine Protection From Evil (AK/DK Remix)
- Ibibio Sound Machine The Black Notes EP
- Jade Hairpins Get Me the Good Stuff
- Titus Andronicus An Obelisk
- Titus Andronicus "Drummer Boy"
- Titus Andronicus “The Will to Live”
- Torres "Too Big for the Glory Hole" b/w "Good Scare (demo)"
- TORRES & Fruit Bats A Decoration
- Waxahatchee El Deafo (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
- Will Butler + Sister Squares Burn It Away
for Sub Pop Records (and related artists):
- METZ II
- METZ Strange Peace
- METZ Automat
- METZ "Acid" / "Slow Decay"
- METZ Eraser / Pure Auto 7"
- Pissed Jeans Why Love Now
- The Gotobeds Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic
- The Gotobeds Fucking In The Future + 5
- The Gotobeds Debt Begins At 30
for Numero Group:
for Goner Records:
- Aquarian Blood A Love That Leads To War
- The Archaeas The Archaeas
- Benni I & II
- Carbonas Your Moral Superiors: Singles And Rarities
- Cobra Man TOXIC PLANET
- The Exbats Now Where Were We
- Gee Tee Goodnight Neanderthal
- Ibex Clone All Channels Clear
- Michael Beach 2022 EP
- Nots Live at Goner
- Nots "Cruel Friend" b/w “Violence” 7"
- Nots 3
- Optic Sink Optic Sink
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat Goblin Alert
- Sick Thoughts Sick Thoughts
- Sick Thoughts Poor Boys (Goodbye Boozy)
- Sick Thoughts Born To Blitzkrieg (Rokk Recoreds)
for Damnably Records:
- David Boring Unnatural Objects and Their Humans
- didi Like Memory Foam
- Former Utopia Magnetar
- Grrrl Gang Here to stay!
- Leggy Leggy (2017 reissue)
- Otoboke Beaver Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver (2018 reissue)
- Say Sue Me Where We Were Together
- Say Sue Me Christmas, It’s Not a Biggie
- Say Sue Me We’ve Sobered Up (Remastered 2018)
- Say Sue Me it’s just a short walk!
- Say Sue Me Your Book / Good People
- Say Sue Me Good for Some Reason (Winter/Spring)
- Wussy Getting Better
- Say Sue Me The Last Thing Left
- Say Sue Me Ten
for Comedy Minus One Records:
- Mint Mile In Season and Ripe
- Mint Mile The Bliss Point
- Mint Mile Heartroller
- Mint Mile Ambertron
- Mint Mile Roughrider
- OUT Billie
- Andrew Cohen + Light Coma Unreality
- Silkworm In The West (reissue)
- Deep Tunnel Project Deep Tunnel Project
for ever/never Records:
- Dan Melchior Plays the Greys
- Stefan Christensen American Pastoral Again
- Dan Melchior Road Not Driving
- Ragtime Frank I Know Said The King
- Spray Paint And The Rebel Charles And Roy’s Purple Wang
- Mosquitoes Drip Water Hollow Out Stone
- Mosquitoes Minus Objects
- Patois Counselors Proper Release
- Patois Counselors The Optimal Seat
- Rider/Horse Select Trials
- Rider/Horse Feed ’Em Salt
- Sparrow Steeple A Aardvark
for 12XU:
- Chris Brokaw Puritan
- Dark Blue Victory Is Rated
- The Gotobeds Poor People Are Revolting
- Flesh Lights Free Yourself
- Ghetto Ghouls “Plastic Violence” b/w “Things I Do”
- The Golden Boys Better Than Good Times
- Jonly Bonly Put Together
- OBN III’s Worth A Lot Of Money
- Schooley Daniels Dead Mall Blues
- Snooty Garbagemen Snooty Garbagemen
- Sweet Talk Double Perfect
- Unholy Two Talk About Hardcore
- Unholy Two The Pleasure To End All Pleasures
- Xetas “The Redeemer” + “The Silence” b/w “The Knife”
- Xetas The Redeemer
- Xetas The Tower
- Xetas The Cypher
- 1 N D E X PROGRESS
- Actuers Corridor MILD VILNC
- Advance Base Animal Companionship (Run For Cover)
- Al Harper Promises I Kept (Homing Instinct Records)
- American Vines Are We Free?
- Anachronist Static and Light (State and Main Records)
- Annihilus Follow a Song From the Sky (Federal Prisoner)
- The Aubreys Soda & Pie
- August Henry South Ramp (Lotuspool Records LLC)
- Austero Espejo EP
- Autogramm What R U Waiting 4? (Nevado)
- Autogramm No Rules (Nevado)
- Baños y Baños Singles Going Broke
- Basura Centro de Observación
- Ben Trickey & Burnt Sky Horizon Line Fires
- Big Bill Public Freakout Compilation
- Black Giraffe Talk Cheap
- Blackplate Everyday is Sadderday (Muddguts)
- Blaine Billingsley The Special Interests
- Bludded Head Bludded Death (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia)
- Bludded Head Reign in Bludd (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia)
- Bret Egner Tapestry
- Bridal Shower Negatives
- Campo-Formio Piedra y Tijera (Dead Mofongo Records)
- Campo-Formio Plan Maestro (Dead Mofongo Records)
- Casiotone For The Painfully AloneEtiquette (2018 remaster) (Orindal)
- Chanel Beads Ache, True Altruism (Fire Talk Records)
- Chris Cardwell Burning Heart (Lotus Pool)
- Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)
- Claude Enactor
- Cocaine Piss The Dancer
- Cocaine Piss Passionate and Tragic (Hypertension Records)
- Cocaine Piss Cool Party
- Cocaine Piss Castle Vanilla
- Cocaine Piss JauneOrange - Split Single #6
- Compressorhead Party Machine
- Covet Catharsis (Triple Crown)
- Creepeth Creep Feed
- daddy's boy GREAT NEWS!
- Dead Sun mother // father
- Dear Nora Skulls Example (Orindal Records)
- Dear Nora Three States (2020 reissue) (Orindal Records)
- Dear Nora human futures (Orindal Records)
- Down the Lees Bury the Sun (Off White House Records)
- Dream Version Fight Fair
- Dream Version Dream Version
- Dustin Kensrue Desert Dreaming (Vagrant)
- El Shirota Ni Siquiera Estamos Listos Para Hablar (Devil In The Woods)
- El Toro El Toro ·· (Vol. 2) Los Niños del Poder
- Explodamo The Joke’s On You (Burn The Furniture)
- FACS Void Moments (Trouble in Mind)
- FACS Present Tense (Trouble in Mind)
- FACS Still Life In Decay (Trouble In Mind)
- FACS North America Endless (Sub Pop)
- Fever Moon Keepers Park (Bifocal Media)
- Fever Moon The Long Chains of Love (Bifocal Media)
- Fishboy Waitsgiving (Lauren Records)
- Forest Bees Forest Bees
- Friendship Commanders BILL (Trimming The Shield Records)
- The Gary Fallow (Act Your Age / Sinkhole TX, Inc)
- Glen Hansard It Was Triumph We Once Proposed | Songs of Jason Molina (Overcoat Recordings)
- The Gold Farmers Low 3
- Gramps The Vamp s/t
- Gramps The Vamp The Cave of 10,000 Eyes
- The Great Tyrant The Trouble With Being Born (Relapse)
- The Gypsy Moths Alright!
- Holly and the Mystery Lights Holly and the Mystery Lights
- The Inflorescence Remember What I Look Like (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Insufferables Argument Clinic
- Jacky Boy Mush (Darling Records)
- Jake McKelvie & the Countertops Here's What You Do
- Jake McKelvie A New Kind of Hat
- Judson Claiborne When a Man Loves an Omen
- Kapitan Korsakov Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities
- Karima Walker Waking The Dreaming Body (Orindal Records)
- Kate Renegade New Unquiet Life
- Korean Jeans Heat (Single Action Rider)
- Knife in the Water Plays One Sound And Others (reissue)
- Knife in the Water Reproduction
- Korean Jeans No Trust (Single Action Rider)
- KRGA Moi St. (Hoser Records)
- Kram Paralysis By Analysis
- Loose Wing Miracle Baby
- Los Mundos Calor Central (Avandadoom)
- Los Mundos No Hay Quien Se Salve (Remaster)
- Los Mundos Las Montañas (Remix and Remaster)
- Los Mundos La Fortaleza del Sonido (Little Cloud Records)
- Los Mundos En Vivo Desde El Centro De La Tierra (Little Cloud Records)
- Los Mundos Eco del Universo (Little Cloud Records)
- Lost Balloons Hey Summer (Dirtnap
- LOVVS Modern Culture
- Lost Balloons Hey Summer (Dirtnap Records)
- Low Horizon Eternal Depressed Summer ()
- Low Lumens The Distant, Everyday (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
- Mad Denizen Starved
- Marine Todd Especially Heinous (Beef Wizard Records)
- Marine Todd Everyone Stood and Clapped (Beef Wizard Records)
- Marine Todd Absolute Unit (Beef Wizard Records)
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes ¡Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Blow It…at Madison’s Quinceañera! (Fat Wreck Chords)
- Melody Angel She Black
- The Miami Dolphins “Becky” (FPE Records)
- Michael John Grant Just Like Smoke
- Mind Spiders Furies (Dirtnap)
- Mike Adams At His Honest Weight Casino Drone (Joyful Noise)
- Mike Maimone The High Hat Club EP
- MirrorBoxx Maximum Program (Memory Terminal Records)
- The Mons Fastplants/The Mons split LP
- Mountain Man The Flower Moon
- More Gorgeous Wormtoe
- The Mutilations Emtionally Inarticulate
- The Mutilations Someone Kill Me Please, Lol
- The Mutts Stuck Together (8eat8 Records)
- Nameless Frames Nameless Frames
- Neo Teras Waning Days
- New Mexican Take it on Our Shoulders
- New Wonders Yes, Please!
- The New Year Snow (Undertow)
- North by North Get Weird (Double Hex Records)
- O-D-EX Breaker (Dirtnap)
- Overnight Hikes Overnight Hikes [EP]
- Paper Mice 1-800-MONDAYS (Three One G)
- Pays P. Ça v aller (Peculiar Works Records)
- Pink Frost Until the Summer Comes (Underroad Records)
- Pink Mountaintops Peacock Pools (ATO Records)
- Pleasant Grove The Heart Contortionists (We Know Better Records)
- PLOSIVS PLOSIVS (Swami Records)
- The Prof.Fuzz 63 Owls
- Quin Galavis The Battery Line
- Radioactivity Silent Kill (Dirtnap)
- Raketkanon RKTKN #2
- Rid Of Me Access To The Lonely (Knife Hits Records)
- Robert Stillman Reality (Orindal Records)
- Robert Stillman What Does It Mean To Be American? (Orindal Records)
- Robert Stillman *Portals (2022 Remaster) (Orindal Records)
- SAVAK Human Error / Human Delight (Peculiar Works Music)
- Seratones Get Gone (Fat Possum)
- Sheep & Horses Sing with the Seven
- Shrug Life Maybe You're The Punchline
- Silkworm Lifestyle (2016 reissue) (Touch and Go)
- Slowkiss Ultraviolet
- Songs: Ohia Travels In Constants (2018 reissue) (Temporary Residence, LTD)
- Songs: Ohia Live: Vanquishers (Secretly Canadian)
- Split Single Metal Frames
- Split Single Live EP (Deuce Records)
- Split Single Amplificado (Inside Outside Records)
- Stagnant Pools Geist (Polyvinyl)
- Strange Americans Borrow You, Brother
- Stomatopod Competing With Hindsight (Pirate Alley Records)
- The Sudden Walk EP1
- SUMAC The Healer (Thrill Jockey)
- Suneaters Suneaters III: Unfathomable Darkness (Lotuspool Records LLC)
- Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony - Fat Possum
- Sunset Images NADA 虚 / CERO 0 / INFINITO ∞
- Tancred Nightstand (Polyvinyl)
- Telegraph Canyon You From Before (Velvet Blue Music)
- Tenemos Explosivos Victoria
- Thee Conductor Cotton Tornado (Sixgunlover)
- Thee Conductor Spirit Of A Ghost (Sixgunlover Records / Spaceflight Records)
- Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance - Revisited (Miscellaneous Recordings)
- Titus Andronicus The Monitor Reissue (XL)
- TJO Songs for Peacock (Orindal Records)
- Total Hell S/T
- Total Hell Killed By Evil
- Touched By Ghoul Christmas Sluts (Under Road Records)
- Touched By Ghoul Cancel the World (Under Road Records)
- Town of Lake Lilac
- Trevor Sensor Andy Warhol’s Dream (Jagjaguwar)
- Trust Punks Discipline (Spunk Records)
- Trust Punks Double Blind (Spunk Records)
- Twin Peaks Side A
- Two Houses Unfriend
- The Vacant Shapes Furniture Rearranged (Thick Honey Records)
- Voice of Action Voice of Action (Lotuspool Records LLC)
- Warbler Wrestling (Renew the Arts)
- Will Butler Stereophonic Original Cast Recording
- Yeesh Saw You Up There
- Yes I’m Leaving Slow Release (Homeless)
- yoo doo right A Murmur, Boundless to the East
- Young Rival Interior Light (Paper Bag)
- Zigtebra The Brave (FPE Records)
- Zoom Helium Octipede (reissue) (Lotus Pool)
Recording and mixing
I co-founded The Echo Lab recording studio in Denton, Texas in 1997 and have recorded, mixed, and produced a lot of records since then. Here are a few of them:
Power Trip
Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord)
Recorded
Mint Mile
Ambertron (Comedy Minus One)
Recorded, Mixed
Mint Mile
Roughrider (Comedy Minus One)
Recorded, Mixed
THE GOTOBEDS
Debt Begins at 30 (Sub Pop)
Recorded, Mixed
The New Year
Snow (Undertow)
Recorded, Mixed
The New Year
The New Year (Touch and Go)
Recorded, Mixed
Pinkish Black
Bottom of the Morning (Relapse)
Recorded, Mixed
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Shearwater
Rook (Matador)
Recorded, Mixed
SAVAK
Flavors Of Paradise (Peculiar Works Music and Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
Recorded, Mixed
Luggage
Shift
Recorded, Mixed
Nervous Curtains
Con
Recorded, Mixed
Tre Orsi
Devices + Emblems (Comedy Minus One)
Recorded, Mixed
TenemosExplosivos
Victoria
Mixed
White Drugs
Gold Magic (Kunstwaffe, Amphetamine Reptile)
Recorded, Mixed
Get in touch
I'd love to help you on your next project. You can email me mb@matthewbarnhart.com or use the contact form below.