The album · restored

Beautiful
Pain

Restored from the original masters, thirteen years later.

October 2  ·  All platforms

01The film · forty seconds

The jar, and the record itself

It opens inside a painted world, pushes through the glass into the desert night where the title was written in light, and then holds up the record itself — the sleeve, the seal pressed into the card, photographs from the booklet, a page of the song’s own lyrics, and the disc.

  • 0:00 the jar, and the desert
  • 0:13 the 2013 sleeve, and the seal
  • 0:20 photographs from the booklet
  • 0:23 the lyric, lifting off the page
  • 0:27 the disc
  • 0:35 the date
0:00
0:00 / 0:40

02The record

Thirteen songs, back where they belong

Beautiful Pain came out in 2013 on Best Revenge Records — a real record with a real package: a printed booklet, a seal on the card, and a disc in a tray. It has been restored from the original masters, and on October 2 it goes up on every platform.

01Thrill of It All
02The Medicine
03If I Hadn’t Forgotten
04Beautiful Pain
05Black & White
06Hearts Don’t Break Themselves
07Is There Any Other Way
08Other Side
09Gonna Shine Brighter
10You’re the Spark
11Inspiration
12Read My Mind
13Notice Me
The case, open · the disc in its tray
Disc in, disc out

03The package

Scanned from the original

Every image here comes off the 2013 package itself, scanned at six hundred dots per inch — the sleeve, the tray, the booklet and the seal.

Beautiful Pain album cover, 2013
The cover
The back of the sleeve with the track listing
The back · thirteen songs
The case open, the disc in its tray
Open · the disc in its tray
The booklet spread with the seal
The booklet · the seal

Click any page to read it full size · arrow keys to turn · Esc to close

Photographs, 2013
Nick Spanos
Recent photographs
Paul Pfau
Art direction & design, 2013
Brian Porizek
Produced by
Mikal Blue & Keaton Simons

04Press

What they said

“A lived-in quality that will echo in our minds and hearts for years to come.”

Los Angeles Times · “An Old Soul in a Young Man’s Voice”

“He could write compelling songs, sing with a distinctive, soulful voice and play guitar with skill and ferocity.”

Los Angeles Times · “Poised for a Breakthrough”

05October 2

Hear it the day it lands

Leave an email and I’ll send you the record the morning it goes up. Nothing else.

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