Deady's 'HUNKA JUNK' Is Three Days in a Louisville Attic Studio and Eighty Takes of One Solo
Deady put out a self-titled EP in 2023. HUNKA JUNK is heavier, longer and better, and it was made almost entirely inside the band: guitarist Chyppe Crosby engineered and mixed it at Makeout Mountain, the studio he owns, over three days in July 2024, with most instruments captured live.
The Sonic Breakdown
The Production & Mix
The Low-End: Tracking a five-piece live in three days gets you a rhythm section that sounds like it is in one room, because it was. Clayton Ray’s bass and KJ Bechtloff’s drums sit locked and unfussy underneath the twin guitars of Crosby and Sam Woodring. Post-Trash’s Dan Goldin, premiering “Systematic Slaughter,” heard the whole span: “a record that really shows a wide dynamic range, peeling between layers of anthemic punk anthems, frayed post-hardcore, and combustible noise pop.”
The Spatial Dynamics: The album’s shape comes from a later, separate session. The three acoustic tracks — “Louisville,” “Goodnight Bitch” and “Lie to the Police” — were cut in February 2025, and Mandy Keathley’s vocals were recorded at her home. Two different rooms, two different intimacies, sequenced into one record. That is why the quiet songs land as relief rather than as an interruption.
Standout Performance
Chyppe Crosby, wearing three hats — guitarist, engineer, studio owner — and refusing to let one of them off easy. He told LEO Weekly that the guitar solo on “Gutter Kid” took roughly eighty takes. You can hear the eightieth.
Why It’s Certified
Because the genre-hopping is honest rather than clever. Crosby’s own explanation, to LEO Weekly: “we’re all kind of like that. We don’t intentionally try to throw a bunch of genres into a song—we’re just always throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.” Keathley frames the lead single with real weight: “‘Systematic Slaughter’ is the acknowledgement of the methodical means in which our class struggles are built into the government machine of oppression.” LEO Weekly’s verdict on the whole thing — “the results are spectacular,” “an absolute must-hear,” “a band you simply aren’t going to forget.”
Vinyl landed September 26 via Romanus. Artwork by Ryan Dunn. Start at track one and let it get loud.