# Brad Wood

Brad Wood is an American record producer based in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville and Placebo's self-titled debut.

## 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

| Album | Artist/Band | Year |
| Speckly | Shrimp Boat | 1989 |
| Roundhouse | Tar | 1990 |
| Hand | Tar | 1990 |
| Mungo | Snailboy | 1990 |
| Social Graces | Every Good Boy | 1990 |
| Dancing Under Water | Freakwater | 1991 |
| Duende | Shrimp Boat | 1991 |
| Construction Of New Action | Trenchmouth | 1991 |
| Miss Hell/My Spit | Calamity Jane | 1991 |
| Martha Jane Cannary | Calamity Jane | 1991 |
| Circus | 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 | 1992 |
| History Volume One | God and Texas | 1992 |
| Gladiator/Boilermaker | The Jesus Lizard | 1992 |
| Hollywood or Bust | The Mercury Players | 1992 |
| Hello Kitty | Hum | 1992 |
| Ernst and Son | Zoom | 1992 |
| Teetering | Tar | 1992 |
| Godawful | Big'n | 1992 |
| Jimmywine Majestic | Red Red Meat | 1993 |
| Cavale | Shrimp Boat | 1993 |
| Mosquito | Tortoise | 1993 |
| Clincher | Tar | 1993 |
| Torture | 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 | 1993 |
| Spindrift | table | 1993 |
| Feels Like the Third Time | Freakwater | 1993 |
| Zoom | 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 | 1994 |
| Trenchmouth 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 | 1995 |
| Old Paint | Freakwater | 1995 |
| Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters | Tortoise | 1995 |
| Placebo | Placebo | 1996 |
| So Wound | Jale | 1996 |
| Strand | The Spinanes | 1996 |
| Tin Cans with Strings to You | Far | 1996 |
| Kim Chee Is Cabbage | Number One Cup | 1996 |
| Hub | Hub Moore | 1996 |
| Multiple 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 | 1997 |
| Promised Works | The For Carnation | 1997 |
| Retreat from the Sun | that dog. | 1997 |
| Singles, 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 | 2001 |
| Transmatic | 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 | 2003 |
| Living Outside | Sense Field | 2003 |
| Catch for Us the Foxes | mewithoutYou | 2004 |
| Something Grand | Shrimp Boat | 2004 |
| Awake Is the New Sleep | Ben Lee | 2005 |
| Adapt 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 | 2008 |
| It'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 | 2009 |
| Nearness | Lovelite | 2010 |
| Cho Dependent | Margaret Cho | 2010 |
| Deas Vail | Deas Vail | 2011 |
| Oh My Garden | Sophie Koh | 2012 |
| Ten 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 | 2013 |
| Summer 720 | Bored Spies | 2013 |
| New Moodio | Eleventh Dream Day | 2013 |
| Hebrews | Say Anything | 2014 |
| The Blue Musk-Oxen | Olde Worlde | 2014 |
| Quiet World | Gatherers | 2015 |
| Love Is The Great Rebellion | Ben Lee | 2015 |
| The Silver Lake Chorus | The Silver Lake Chorus | 2015 |
| The Kraken | In Each Hand A Cutlass | 2015 |
| Ghost Notes | Veruca Salt | 2015 |
| Stage Four | Touché Amoré | 2016 |
| Kestrels | Kestrels | 2016 |
| Fat Lot Of Good | Cranky George | 2016 |
| Ties | SEE | 2016 |
| TOMGIRL | TOMGIRL | 2016 |
| Cinematica | Obedient Wives Club | 2017 |
| New Trick | Skating Polly | 2017 |
| Where I Go When I Am Sleeping | Casey | 2018 |
| Negative Space | Satellite Citi | 2018 |
| Untamed | WYO | 2018 |
| The Make It All Show | Skating Polly | 2018 |
| Fear Tactics | Satellite Citi | 2021 |
| My Colossal Truth | Night Dangers | 2021 |
| Is Committed | Say Anything | 2024 |