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Released July 22, 2018, Alien Plant Farm is the 2nd full length release from The Dark Whatever. Fed up with the food service industry and buried under an ever growing collection of original songs, Anthony moved from Seattle to L.A. in early 2017 to try and record a few of them. After plans fell through, he got in touch with his old Desert Hounds band mate, Josh Nunez, who learned the songs and recorded drums from behind the kit and console at his Murrieta home studio. Slowly, things evolved and more songs found their way into the project. Faster Than You Can Say Things Could Change and Highest Boy In All The Land were both written during the recording process and thrown in with fervor.
Anthony spent a little over a whirlwind of a year tracking all the other instruments by himself, trying to get all the noises and nuances just right. Brennan Edmondson was recruited to help mix drums on a few of the heavier songs but Anthony mixed everything else himself and sent the finished tracks to Max Tousseau, guitarist for The Dear Hunter and old Arc Type Set band mate, who masterfully mastered everything to a profusely juicy level.
The title is a play on the band Alien Ant Farm, while the theme was inspired by the extraordinary healing and mind opening powers of psilocybin mushrooms as well as other psychedelics that grow straight out of this big, beautiful planet we inhabit. In step with the first album, the cover was painted by Anthony's girlfriend, The Neon Savage, and is a take on the alchemy of inspiration into action, the synergy between human and entheogen, as well as the dualism separating the self and ego, from which The Dark Whatever draws its name.
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Originally conceived of as 3 separate, 4 song ep's, The Dark Whatever's self titled first album is an ode to making due with what you have. Fresh out of rehab and a crazy relationship, empty and brokenhearted, Anthony borrowed his brother's MacBook and, using only its built-in microphone, began recording songs he had been writing over the years as a means to claw his way out of the darkness and still the ever rampant monkey mind.
Featuring guest vocals by close friends Holly Pulliam and Aaron Richards
Cover art by the man, the myth, the legend: Dillon Dean Green
2014
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