Producing songs for Clairo and Charli XCX, Deaton Chris Anthony is pushing out on his own.
Words: Sam Taylor. Photos: Bryan Carr.
Music isn’t just made by the people in front of the camera. There’s often a whole load of writers, producers and other ‘behind the scenes’ types contributing to the latest new material of your faves. Most of them, we never really hear about. Others may get a bit of appreciation in especially nerdy parts of ‘the internet’. Occasionally, though, one will find a way to punch through on their own.
Deaton Chris Anthony has a list of previous collabs to turn most sensible dials to ‘interested’. There’s both HRH Queen of Pop Bops Charli XCX and indie icon Clairo on there, for a start. Now, alongside collaborators like beabadoobee and BENEE, he’s going it on his own with a new project, ‘SID THE KID’. Truth be told, though, our Deaton seems more into bowling. Who could blame him? We caught up to find out more.
Hi Deaton! How’s it going, what are you up to today?
Hello! Today it is Tuesday, and I am eating shrimp tacos. I just got a shirt from a rag house that says “It’s a Bowling Thang” and it says THANG on the sleeve.
Give us the tl;dr of your time in the music industry so far.
I started making epic music in Kansas a few years ago, and one of my first songs was ‘Tony Hawk’. I moved to Los Angeles and knew no one. One day I got a DM from Tony Hawk saying he liked my song, which blew my mind. Pretty much from there, I just kept DMing anyone, and actually, I wrote a song about it called ‘Deatons Meditation’… basically sliding into DMs changed my life. Everything good for me has come from meditating my way.
