New Single and Video from Logan Farmer: “Manhattan”

I interviewed Logan Farmer for Tape Op back in issue #139 and his debut album, Still No Mother, was one of my top ten LPs for 2020. 

Logan just released a new single that is from his upcoming third LP, Nightmare World I See The Horizon, that will be released by Western Vinyl on January 16, 2026. 
https://loganfarmer.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-world-i-see-the-horizon

The single and video for “Manhattan” are out now. 

Still No Mother was a very inspiring record for me. As I found out when I talked with Logan, he recorded and mixed it at home in his apartment with one microphone and a pair of headphones. This stripped down recording made me really rethink my own studio, which had grown into a larger recording space with quite a bit of gear aimed at recording full bands with complex recording setups. But more and more music that I really liked was being made outside of these parameters, and my large, complex studio would not be very helpful in making a smaller, more intimate recording like Still No Mother. This was during the pandemic, and we had a mostly un-used guest cottage at Panoramic House that I decided to turn into a small, very basic studio space aimed at one or two people making music together. The cottage studio can’t track drums, but it can accommodate two to three people working together in one open room that doubles as the kitchen, and we’ve ended up making a fair amount of records in that space in the last few years with various artists. I credit Still No Mother as the spark that helped me envision this recording space. 

I stayed in touch with Logan, and when he released his second LP, A Mold For The Bell, I was very intrigued with the track, “Crooked Lines” from the album. I ended up doing a remix of the track that was released on his digital EP, Butchers, as a benefit for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. The remix was fun to do, and I played off a loop that Logan had used that reminded me of Steve Reich’s [Tape Op #15] seminal tape loop piece, “Come Out.” I used Ableton Live to duplicate the loop and then create a shifting phase relationship similar to Reich’s two tape machines, so that the loop evolved over the course of the song. The song was already a bit experimental sounding, but I pushed it a bit, further mangling some of the saxophone with Ableton’s pitch shifting envelopes. 

At some point after this, Logan reached out about booking a week in the cottage studio to record his third album, which he did in February of 2024. That felt really full circle to me, and it’s really nice to see that Nightmare World I See The Horizon will be released next year from these sessions. Logan added some guest musicians after the initial tracking session, including Heather Woods Broderick and Eliza Niemi on cello and vocals, Annie Leeth on violin, Patrick Lyons on pedal steel, and Zachary Visconti on guitar, bass, piano, beats, and vocals. Mastering was done by Amar Lai.