Brad Wood is an American record producer and sound engineer based in Los Angeles. He has produced and engineered many albums in the rock subgenres of alternative rock and indie rock.
Career Wood is from Rockford, Illinois. In 1988, Wood, along with Brian Deck and Daniel Sonis, built Idful Music Corporation recording studio in Chicago's Wicker Park. While at Idful, he recorded and produced hundreds of records, including Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Veruca Salt's American Thighs, Ben Lee's Grandpaw Would, Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary and LP2, and albums by Red Red Meat, Seam, That Dog, and others. In addition to producing records, Brad was the drummer/soprano saxophonist for Shrimp Boat and touring drummer for Liz Phair (1993–94).
After relocating to Los Angeles, California, Wood has continued to record, mix, and produce records, primarily from his Seagrass Studio in Valley Village. He has worked on recordings by mewithoutYou, Touché Amoré, Skating Polly, Say Anything, Pete Yorn, and Dar Williams.
Records produced or mixed AlbumArtist/BandYear Speckly Shrimp Boat 1989Roundhouse Tar 1990Hand Tar 1990Mungo Snailboy 1990Social Graces Every Good Boy 1990 Dancing Under Water Freakwater 1991 Duende Shrimp Boat 1991Construction Of New Action Trenchmouth 1991Miss Hell/My Spit Calamity Jane 1991Martha Jane Cannary Calamity Jane 1991Circus Dog 1991 Jesus Built a Ship to Sing a Song To Jeff Lescher and Janet Beveridge Bean 1992 The Lilacs Rise Above the Filth The Lilacs 1992 Kernel Seam 1992 Uptighty Uptighty 1992History Volume One God and Texas 1992Gladiator/Boilermaker The Jesus Lizard 1992Hollywood or Bust The Mercury Players 1992Hello Kitty Hum 1992Ernst and Son Zoom 1992Teetering Tar 1992Godawful Big'n 1992Jimmywine Majestic Red Red Meat 1993 Cavale Shrimp Boat 1993Mosquito Tortoise 1993 Clincher Tar 1993Torture Mama Tick 1993 Criminal Element God and Texas 1993 Inside the Future Trenchmouth 1993 The Problem with Me Seam 1993 Electra 2000 Hum 1993 Exile in Guyville Liz Phair 1993Spindrift table 1993Feels Like the Third Time Freakwater 1993Zoom Zoom 1993 Double Shot God and Texas 1994 Dreamcake Jale 1994 Funny Farm King Kong 1994 American Thighs Veruca Salt 1994 Whip-Smart Liz Phair 1994 Diary Sunny Day Real Estate 1994 Jimmywine Majestic Red Red Meat 1994 Memory Barge Hardvark 1994 The Sea and Cake The Sea and Cake 1994 Ursa Major Eleventh Dream Day 1994Trenchmouth Vs. The Light Of The Sun Trenchmouth 1994 Are You Driving Me Crazy? Seam 1995 Breathe Loud Lucy 1995 Bunny Gets Paid Red Red Meat 1995 Meet the Real You Noise Addict 1995 LP2 Sunny Day Real Estate 1995 Menthol Menthol 1995 Broadcaster Triple Fast Action 1995 Grandpaw Would Ben Lee 1995Old Paint Freakwater 1995Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters Tortoise 1995 Placebo Placebo 1996 So Wound Jale 1996 Strand The Spinanes 1996 Tin Cans with Strings to You Far 1996Kim Chee Is Cabbage Number One Cup 1996Hub Hub Moore 1996Multiple Attackers Burnout 1996 Wrecked by Lions Number One Cup 1997 All Disco Dance Must End in Broken Bones Whale 1997 Something to Remember Me By Ben Lee 1997Promised Works The For Carnation 1997 Retreat from the Sun that dog. 1997Singles, Live, Unreleased Royal Trux 1997 Come Clean Mysteries of Life 1998 Whitechocolatespaceegg Liz Phair 1998 Adore The Smashing Pumpkins 1998 Hedwig and the Angry Inch (original cast recording) 1999 One Diane Izzo 1999 White Out Verbow 2000 Open Heart Surgery Virginwool 2000 Musicforthemorningafter Pete Yorn 2001 Closer Better Than Ezra 2001 Vertigo Jump, Little Children 2001Transmatic Transmatic 2001 Only If You Look Up Portable 2002 Doll Revolution The Bangles 2003 The Fire Theft The Fire Theft 2003 Day I Forgot Pete Yorn 2003 Welcome to the Middle Laguardia 2003Living Outside Sense Field 2003 Catch for Us the Foxes mewithoutYou 2004Something Grand Shrimp Boat 2004 Awake Is the New Sleep Ben Lee 2005Adapt or Die: Ten Years of Remixes Everything But The Girl 2005 A Burn or a Shiver Edison Glass 2006 Happiness & Disaster Stabilo 2006 Desert Lights Something for Kate 2006 About-Face The Working Title 2006 Brother, Sister mewithoutYou 2006 Shine Sam Bettens 2007 In Defense of the Genre Say Anything 2007 Attack Dead Child 2008 Promised Land Dar Williams 2008 Starting Gun Signal Hill Transmission 2008It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! mewithoutYou 2009 I'll Wait for Sound Director 2009 The Rebirth of Venus Ben Lee 2009 Hell or High Water As Cities Burn 2009 QU Sherwood 2009 Let's Take a Walk Long Live Logos 2009Nearness Lovelite 2010Cho Dependent Margaret Cho 2010Deas Vail Deas Vail 2011 Oh My Garden Sophie Koh 2012Ten Stories mewithoutYou 2012 Is Survived By Touché Amoré 2013 No Fairy Tale Lisa Loeb 2013 The Things We Think We're Missing Balance and Composure 2013Summer 720 Bored Spies 2013New Moodio Eleventh Dream Day 2013 Hebrews Say Anything 2014The Blue Musk-Oxen Olde Worlde 2014Quiet World Gatherers 2015 Love Is The Great Rebellion Ben Lee 2015 The Silver Lake Chorus The Silver Lake Chorus 2015The Kraken In Each Hand A Cutlass 2015Ghost Notes Veruca Salt 2015Stage Four Touché Amoré 2016 Kestrels Kestrels 2016Fat Lot Of Good Cranky George 2016Ties SEE 2016TOMGIRL TOMGIRL 2016Cinematica Obedient Wives Club 2017New Trick Skating Polly 2017Where I Go When I Am Sleeping Casey 2018Negative Space Satellite Citi 2018Untamed WYO 2018The Make It All Show Skating Polly 2018Fear Tactics Satellite Citi 2021My Colossal Truth Night Dangers 2021...Is Committed Say Anything 2024 Sunn O))) Sunn O))) 2026Snowdrop MONO 2026
References
External links Official website discography from discogs.com album credits from allmusic.com Brad Wood interview from Tape Op Magazine Edgy In Chicago 1994 from New York Times