Andrew Suzuki - Artist Project
Andrew Suzuki is a songwriter whose music feels like pages pulled from a personal journal. Drawing inspiration from reflective, emotionally open artists like Daniel Caesar, The 1975, and Clinton Kane, he write songs centered on presence, inner conflict, and the shared experience of being human.
Their current project follows a diary-style concept, with each song capturing a moment of lived experience and the quiet realization that came after. Rather than offering answers, Andrew Suzuki creates space for reflection, turning vulnerability into understanding and reminding listeners to feel life while they’re living it.
Newest Release
“Pillow Thoughts”
The song “Pillow Thoughts” is my original indie pop/indie rock song influenced by artists such as The 1975 and Daniel Caesar. It features electric guitar, electric piano, acoustic guitar, vocals, and drums, all performed by me. I created this project in Logic Pro using 92 tracks, the most I’ve used up to this point. In this project, I experimented with a new approach to production, where I reflected on the instrumentation, dynamics, and the overall mood of songs that I like, and drew inspiration from those elements to apply in my own productions.
Preview of In-Progress Demos
I saw a boy
“I saw a boy” is an original indie-pop/indie-rock song where I was the sole performer for everything on the song. The vocals were recorded on an SM7B running through an SSL Strip, 1176, and LA2A combo with Pro-Q 4 and a Pultec EQP for subtractive and additive EQ, respectively. I finished it off with UAD Sound City Studios to re-mic it to add a little bit of chamber and character. I then ran it through my reverb, delay, and saturation buses on a plate reverb sidechained to the vocals with a low cut at 200hz, a space echo fed into the reverb bus to avoid dry delays, and a Decapitator blended for vocal presence.
“Halloween”
“Halloween” is a reflective indie-pop/indie-rock song, and the vocal chain is extremely similar to the vocal chain for “I saw a boy”. One standout highlight is the use of mid/side separation for guitars. I had 2 separate guitar takes that were separated using Waves Center, where the higher register take was in the mid, and the full register take was in the sides. Both are fed into UAD Sound City Studios to create depth and glue the two takes together space-wise.