Mystery Lawn studio is the headquarters of San Francisco-based pop band The Orange Peels. The band has composed and tracked part or all of their albums here. Band leader Allen Clapp uses it as his own personal melody workshop, and he produces songs for likeminded musicians, too. Mystery Lawn has two pianos (a 100-year-old upright and a 100-year-old baby grand), vintage Altec 604 monitoring, a live room for thunderous drum tracks, a hand-built vocal microphone, some nice tube and solid state preamps, compressors and vintage guitar amplifiers. Listen to some of our work below:

Aether Tide

The Orange Peels

(Minty Fresh, 2011)

All or Nothing

Allen Clapp & his Orchestra

(Minty Fresh, 2011)

Goodnight Moon

William Cleere and the

Marvellous Fellas

(Mystery Lawn, 2011)

Iowa

The Hollyhocks

(Mystery Lawn, 2012)

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Alison Faith Levy

(Mystery Lawn, 2012)

Sugar Skull

The Corner Laughers

(Mystery Lawn, 2012)