Best Behavior, the 2nd full-length album from the band Dinowalrus was released March 6th on Old Flame Records. The album was recorded and mixed by Nadim at Let ‘Em In and has garnered strong reviews from notable sources, including Pitchfork, No Rip Cord, and Consequence of Sound (click the links for reviews).

Already looking ahead, the band were back in the studio in late March to work on their followup album. Our friend and neighbor Bryan B. dropped by for a couple hours one day and snapped some nice shots of the band for his blog, Subinev. We really couldn’t be happier working with the gents of Dinowalrus.

Best Behavior by Dinowalrus

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper continues to rack up the good press, landing the cover story in the latest issue of Performer Mag. We’re currently hard at work on her debut studio album. Its going to be a doozy.

April 2012 Issue of Performer Mag

Last but not least, check out the latest BB Songs piece featuring Hilly Eye. If you’re not familiar with Brooklyn-Based, it’s a blog/email newsletter that tracks events, people, and places of note in our fair borough. Every month or so, BB picks a band or artist to interview and they come to the studio to record one song. Sometimes it’s a cover song and sometimes it’s an original, as was the case with Hilly Eye. This is our 11th BB Songs feature and we’re loving it! Stay tuned for Hilly Eye’s debut 7″ out on Don Giovanni Records May 1st.

Recorded a little bit of everything these past couple of months: rock, hip hop, orchestral music…  The photo below is from a Lady Lamb the Beekeeper session. Nadim and Aly have been hard at work on the album and it’s progressing quite nicely.

Good vibes with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper....

Pearl and the Beard was in the studio to record the next Brooklyn-Based Songs segment. The band covered Bon Iver’s “Re: Stacks”. They instilled in the song a lovely atmosphere and moodiness that isn’t really present in the original. They also played the song in triple-meter instead of duple-meter which seems to give it more propulsion. You can read the Brooklyn-Based interview here.

In January, we were pleased to host three days of orchestral sessions to record the score for a short film called “The Scout”. An homage to classic 80s Spielberg films like ET and The Goonies, the film’s score, composed by Andrew Morgan Smith, is very much in the style of John Williams.