Beyond Was All Around Me

2013 release from singer/songwriter Colin Caulfield AKA Young Man, the final installment in his album trilogy, a song cycle about youth and growing up that Caulfield first conceived in his Chicago dorm room in 2009. Recorded over the course of a month in early 2012 at Brooklyn's Rare Book Room Studios, Beyond Was All Around Me was produced, engineered and mixed by Nicolas Vernhes whose albums with Fiery Furnaces, Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors were a big part of what attracted Caulfield to working with him. Caulfield reassembled his bandmates guitarist Emmett Conway, bassist Joe Bailey, synth player Jeff Graupner and new drummer Darien Williams and subletted an apartment walking distance from the studio in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Caulfield says that living in one space helped them achieve a creative synchronicity they weren't able to achieve on the previous LP, which had been recorded at home in Chicago.