Project Description
Similar Artists: Dawes, Blitzen Trapper, Vance Joy
There’s truth to life coming full circle. It’s particularly true for singer-songwriter, Sutter Zachman who was discovered, lost, and rediscovered again. Zachman says, “My path feels a bit inverted in the sense that I got a publishing deal when I was young and had yet to establish any sort of musical identity. It initially caused a lot of confusion and doubt, but things must happen for a reason because the past 10+ years have been essential to my growth as a songwriter.”
At the brink of just twenty years old Zachman signed a big publishing deal in 2008 with Chrysalis. Unable to find immediate success as a songwriter, Zachman moved to the Midwest to attend college and wouldn’t return to Los Angeles until 2013 when he formed the band La Route, consisting of Cameron Meshell (Forever Like Red) and Angela Russell. The trio’s regularly performed street shows on Abbot Kinney Boulevard eventually caught the attention of a local producer who invited them to record at his studio – resulting in Zachman’s debut EP, Repeat Offender. The single off the EP, “Back to Sleep,” received international airplay on BBC and Rte 1 Radio and earned him an in-studio performance at Yahoo Music. As Zachman was wrapping up the production of his fourth EP, Up All Night, an auspicious dinner set up by his wife’s co-worker led to Zachman meeting Grammy-winning engineer Austen Jux-Chandler (Adele, Wolf Alice, Vance Joy) who produced the upcoming album, End of the Arcade. Zachman will support the album release with a fall tour.
RELEASES
What happens when a ’70s-style singer-songwriter embraces New Wave? “Matters in the Dark,” the first single from Sutter Zachman’s forthcoming debut album, answers that question in shimmering colors. The single due out July 26 is off the album, End of the Arcade, produced by Grammy-winning engineer Austen Jux-Chandler (Adele, Wolf Alice, Vance Joy).
If Duran Duran and Dawes hung out for a night, they might have laid down a tune like this one – a bouncy kaleidoscope of psychedelic riffs and bright acoustic guitars above an irresistible groove. Zachman’s dreamy melodies glide like shooting stars through the night sky as he meets his lover in “the space between the body and the soul.” It’s an alluring burst of hypnotic pop. Read more
“We Live in California” (Single Release)
Release Date: August 30, 2021

Contradictions bloom like jacarandas in Sutter Zachman’s “We Live in California,” a jaunty lament about a fickle muse, and a tongue-in-cheek ode to the sun-splashed state where the singer-songwriter spent his formative years. The single due out August 30 is off the album, End of the Arcade, produced by Grammy-winning engineer Austen Jux-Chandler (Adele, Wolf Alice, Vance Joy).
In the opening track from Sutter Zachman’s End of the Arcade, sparse keyboards and sprays of synth give way to a pulsing, spacious beat that would have been right at home in the early, halcyon days of MTV. “This Chinese new year, this waning moon,” Zachman sings in a kind of trance, as if walking through a dream. “These crimes of passion come to my room.” The single, Chinese New Year” due out September 27 is off the album, End of the Arcade, produced by Grammy-winning engineer Austen Jux-Chandler (Adele, Wolf Alice, Vance Joy).
Bio
There’s truth to life coming full circle. It’s particularly true for singer-songwriter, Sutter Zachman who was discovered, lost, and rediscovered again. Zachman says, “My path feels a bit inverted in the sense that I got a publishing deal when I was young and had yet to establish any sort of musical identity. It initially caused a lot of confusion and doubt, but things must happen for a reason because the past 10+ years have been essential to my growth as a songwriter.”

“There’s a bit of the young Rick Nelson about him vocally, and a sense of substance—not flash—in the songs he sings that promises much.”
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