Marcus Drake
Save Point 1
DIGITAL: Download the album in lossless audio format.
BLACK 12" VINYL W/ INSERT (1st PRESSING): Enter Save Point 1 via the hi-fi first edition pressing on black vinyl... as it was meant to be heard. Manufactured from hi-fi vinyl masters in the USA. LP packaging inspired by 90s era video game packaging. Full color jackets. Full color double sided insert with lyrics and artwork. Full color branded labels. Shrink wrapped with a hype sticker.
TRANSPARENT BLUE 12" VINYL: Limited edition Transparent Blue Vinyl LP (edition of 200). Manufactured from hi-fi vinyl masters in the USA. LP packaging inspired by 90s era video game packaging. Full color jackets. Full color double sided insert with lyrics and artwork. Full color branded labels. Shrink wrapped with a hype sticker.
WAX MAGE 12" VINYL: Ultra limited edition handmade vinyl variant by Wax Mage. Edition of 25. Manufactured from hi-fi vinyl masters in the USA. Geoburst design. Design will look similar to the photos, but color may vary. LP packaging inspired by 90s era video game packaging. Full color jackets. Full color double sided insert with lyrics and artwork. B-side label is Wax Mage label. Shrink wrapped with a hype sticker.
After years of preparation, Marcus Drake emerges from the basement networks of the resistance underground to claim the first save point along his quest ahead. Welcome to Save Point 1, a universe where popular forms of the past collide at warp speed with Marcus’s mutant inspirations to produce sounds and genres hitherto unknown. Written, Produced & Performed by Marcus Drake
Save Point 1 is a visionary and singular Debut work of Avant Rock & Pop Alchemy, blown apart and reassembled under the laws of Quantum Musical Mechanics. The album eludes classification, but sounds like a sci-fi fusion of musical DNA from Nine Inch Nails, Prefab Sprout, Nobuo Uematsu (the Final Fantasy video game composer), Animal Collective, Prince, Mr. Bungle, Liars, The Mars Volta, and Lil Ugly Mane.
The album marks the first release under Drake’s own name, and the latest since his 2017 release as Anthony Fremont’s Garden Solutions—his idiosyncratic side-project with Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos, Options’ Seth Engel, and NNAMDÏ. He has also since scored for film and video, including the Adult Swim short Thoron the Conqueror.
Save Point 1 isn’t just a new beginning, but a reintroduction to Marcus Drake the artist and composer. Drake experimented with new techniques and approaches for many years while recording Save Point 1, a process that transformed his sound, voice, and artistic identity. The resulting oeuvre is giddy and dreamy, an Olympic-height diving board from which to descend through indie rock and videogame soundtracks, thrilling math-rock riffs that turn experimental, and synths that glow in rainbow hues. Just turn to the glitchpop of “Heaven’s in the Rot” or the slow-motion acoustic glitter that is “Dragon It Out” to hear it in motion. And note the two-part “Haunted” suite that funnels his unpredictable experimentation into darker, weirder directions.
Written, Produced and Performed by Marcus Drake
Engineered and Recorded by Marcus Drake
Additional Engineering by Seth Engel
Mixed by Seth Engel and Marcus Drake
Mastered by Brok Mende at Friends of Friends Recording in Chicago, IL
Cover Photos by Dennis Larance
Additional Photography by Marcus Drake
Layout, Text, Logos and Design by Izzi Vasquez
