Brady Arnold Music - Official NeoCities Site

Summer 2001: On my days off of working at the restaurant, I would be stuck in the apartment with nothing to do. All I had were my guitars and little more at that time so I began to write songs. After losing my job at the end of the USU sessions (just two months earlier) I ended up selling most of the gear which that album was recorded on. As you can imagine I was not happy about this and so the songs I was writing came out more aggressive! I think the aggression was also a product of having just recorded a mild pop rock album, so this was my way of kicking things up a bit!

By the end of November 2001 I was already finished with all the songs and putting the demos down on the PC version of Music Generator. Finally in March of 2002 I bought a Korg D12 recorder and was able to start recording tracks for the new album. By this time the songs were well rehearsed and easy to put down. Recording sessions would go on through September 2002, and mixing mastering would be finished some time before the end of November 2002. The original version of Anti-Human was originally released under the artist name "Universe" on Friday December the 13th 2002.

Not long after putting this album out, I realized that the sound quality was really bad and was super bummed about it! I didn't understand the concept of proper mix monitoring with actual flat eq speakers and tried to mix the thing on old speakers which were sitting on the floor. By the time I was willing to face the issue I was already off and working on Ice Age in early 2003. There was an attempt in late 2005 to remix and remaster the original version. Unfortunately this version was also cursed with an issue of asymmetrical phase waveforms caused by the lack of good sound processing. This created volume dropouts and abrasive tones throughout the album.

Fast forward to 2026 with AI assisted stem splitting now a thing, I've gone back to the very original mixes to split and mix everything everything once again!

Released December 13, 2002