Brother Boost

Brother Boost turns family mythology, old heartbreak, Bay Area ambition, and private anxiety into melodic indie folk: funny, detailed, and unsentimental even when it gets tender.

Brother Boost is the music of Peter Hatch.

Peter is a designer, a former high school art teacher, and an obsessive songwriter, tinkerer, and home-recorder. He was raised on Elton John and Ben Folds Five, later shaped by Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver, and lives in Berkeley with his wife, Liz, and their rabbit, Mr. Chili.

Before Brother Boost, Peter recorded as Nanobits, making tiny experimental songs from Casio sounds, cheap tapes, MIDI beats, trobmbones, vocoders, and other charming little machines that are probably in his closet.

At 39, Brother Boost began with a private deadline: release a record before turning 40. Not just write songs. Not just record them. Release them.

The result was Dead Meat, a debut album of all-new songs about family, old love, panic, ambition, gratitude, introversion, procrastination, horseshit, and the strange little objects that carry whole chapters.

Written and recorded at home in Berkeley, Dead Meat was co-produced and mixed by Yuuki Matthews of The Shins and mastered by Christopher Colbert. The album features James McAlister, Eli West, Justin Keller, and Liz McFadden Hatch.

For bookings, song writing / production collaborations, or inquiries contact him here