Attic Static Sticker Star, by The Normal Knees is a free-flowing feeling journal set to the hard-hitting textures of Seattle grunge-pop.
Renew the Arts helped The Normal Knees realize their vision for this record free of charge and free of strings by:
- providing in-depth artistic feedback and critique
- providing session musicians
- mixing and mastering the record in-house
- creating album art and layout in-house
- providing for digital distribution through our BandCamp label
Estimated monetary value of sponsorship: $5,000
Physick’s Death is Their Shepherd is an 81-minute chamber prog rock double concept album with an accompanying illustrated narrative.
Renew the Arts helped Physick realize their vision for this record and narrative companion free of charge and free of strings by:
- providing in-depth artistic feedback and critique
- funding costs for hiring a professional choir: the southeast’s premier Atlanta Master Chorale recorded the choral parts
- tracking and mixing the record in-house
- providing for mastering with producer Patrick Anderson
- creating album art, illustrations, and layout in-house
- launching a successful Kickstarter to crowd-fund the cost of mastering, replication, and digital distribution
Estimated monetary value of sponsorship: $26,000
Warbler’s second record with Renew the Arts, Sea of Glass, is a folk-rock Christian protest record exploring how a righteous individual should respond to his isolation within a wicked culture.
Renew the Arts helped Warbler realize their vision for this record free of charge and free of strings by:
- providing in-depth artistic feedback and critique as well as help with lyrical composition
- providing session musicians for tracking
- launching a successful Kickstarter to crowd-fund the cost of mixing, mastering, replication, and digital distribution
Estimated monetary value of sponsorship: $8,000
Fiery Crash’s first record with Renew the Arts, In Clover, is an intimate, shoe-gazing pop-folk record filling out the singer-songwriter styling Fiery Crash had explored in previous independent releases.
Renew the Arts helped Fiery Crash realize their vision for this record free of charge and free of strings by:
- providing in-depth artistic feedback and critique
- tracking and mixing the record in-house
- arranging string parts
- providing session musicians for tracking
- creating album art and layout in-house
- launching a successful Kickstarter to crowd-fund the cost of mastering, replication, and digital distribution
Estimated monetary value of sponsorship: $18,000
Brock’s Folly’s second record with Renew the Arts, The Great Commoner, is a folk-rock Americana record that tells the story and continues the legacy of William Jennings Bryan (namesake of Bryan College where the band met and formed).
Renew the Arts helped Brock’s Folly realize their vision for this record free of charge and free of strings by:
- providing in-depth artistic feedback and critique
- tracking and mixing the record in-house
- providing session musicians for tracking
- creating album art and layout in-house
- launching a successful Kickstarter to crowd-fund the cost of mastering, replication, and digital distribution
Estimated monetary value of sponsorship: $20,000