Chris Coady

Chris Coady
Coady at DNA Downtown studios in New York City
Background information
Occupation	Record producer

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	Role
Geneva Jacuzzi	Dry	Dais Records	Mixer
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

References

"Chris Coady". AllMusic.