Mike Crossey

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Mike Crossey
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Origin Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Years active2000–present

Mike Crossey (born 1979) is a Northern Irish record producer, songwriter, and mixing engineer. He produced the debut single by Arctic Monkeys, collaborating with them over two albums. He is known for his ongoing relationship with The 1975, in addition to productions with Jeremy Zucker, Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon, LANY, LAUV, Foals, Keane, Jake Bugg, The Gaslight Anthem, MUNA, Wolf Alice, Nothing But Thieves and Yungblud.

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Career

Crossey started his career as a promoter of punk shows in Belfast before moving to Liverpool to complete his training at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He remained in Liverpool, operating out of the Motor Museum, until 2012. During that period he produced some of the most critically acclaimed British indie acts.

After seeing the Arctic Monkeys perform, he invited them to the studio and cut the band's first EP Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys . He contributed production on the second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, which includes singles such as "Teddy Picker", "Fluorescent Adolescent" and "Brianstorm"

He has since produced and mixed albums by Nothing but Thieves, Foals, Keane, Jake Bugg, Tribes, Blood Red Shoes, The Enemy, The Kooks, and Razorlight. [1]

After studying the sonic nature of BBC Radio One's transmissions, frequency and compression, Mike has developed a solid reputation of creating separate radio mixes specifically suited for the channel. He has done so for acts such as The Black Keys.

2012–2015: Mixing for The 1975, Twenty One Pilots, Jake Bugg, Wolf Alice

Moving to London in 2012, Crossey embarked on an ambitious year. He mixed the acclaimed Ben Howard album Every Kingdom and Two Door Cinema Club's sophomore Beacon .

Working with a young Nottingham songwriter Jake Bugg, Crossey produced and mixed the singer's eponymous debut album Jake Bugg , which was certified platinum in the UK. The album was a commercial and critical success – receiving a 9/10 in NME [2] and 81/100 on metacritic. [3]

In 2012, Crossey produced the Top 10 album [4] for The View's Cheeky for a Reason and mixed The Courteeners' third album ANNA which debuted at number two. [5]

He produced Manchester act The 1975's self-titled debut album, the American band The Gaslight Anthem's fifth album Get Hurt [6] [7] [8] and the track "The Judge" from Twenty One Pilots' fourth studio album, Blurryface . [9]

Crossey also produced the Wolf Alice album My Love Is Cool in 2015 which received a 9/10 score from NME. [10]

2015–2019: Producing for The 1975, Nothing But Thieves, Walk The Moon, MUNA, Half Alive

Relocating to Los Angeles in 2015, he produced The 1975's second album, entitled I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It - the album received critical praise upon its release in 2016. [11]

In 2017, he steered Nothing But Thieves's second album Broken Machine , which he produced, mixed and contributing to writing. [12]

He produced the third Walk the Moon album, What If Nothing , including single "One Foot" - the highest selling alternative single of the year. [13]

In 2018, he continued his relationship with The 1975 - mixing the album while the band took over production detail. He produced LANY's second album, Malibu Nights , as well as an album for Billy Raffoul and mixed songs for Hozier. Crossey produced LAUV and LANY's collaborative track, "Mean It", which was released on 14 November 2019. [14] He produced four songs on the 2019 Half Alive album, Now, Not Yet .

2020–2022: Producing for YUNGBLUD, Noah Cyrus, Jake Wesley Rodgers, The Killers

Crossey continued to revisit productions or mixing with LANY and The 1975 on their albums in 2020.

He produced songs for YUNGBLUD, The Killers, Jeremy Zucker, [15] Half Alive and Jake Wesley Rogers. [16] His mix CV expanded to include albums by LAUV, Beabadoobee, The Wombats, and Bad Suns.

In 2022, he completed production and mixing of Noah Cyrus' debut solo album. [17] He produced two tracks on Louis Tomlinson's second studio album including the single "Bigger Than Me".

2023 - current: LANY, Chelsea Cutler

In mid 2023, Crossey completed production on LANY's album, while undertaking mixing on Chelsea Cutler's album.

His mix of Nothing But Thieves' album, Dead Club City , debuted at no1 on the UK chart.[ which? ]

Songwriting and production discography

TitleYearArtist(s)AlbumCredits
"Sex"2013 The 1975 The 1975 Producer
"The 1975"
"The City"
"M.O.N.E.Y."
"Chocolate"
"Talk!"
"An Encounter"
"Heart Out"
"Settle Down"
"Robbers"
"Girls"
"12"
"She Way Out"
"Menswear"
"Pressure"
"Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You"
"Giant Peach"2015 Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool
"Bros"
"You're a Germ"
"Turn to Dust"
"Your Loves Whore"
"Lisbon"
"Silk"
"Freazy"
"Swallowtail"
"Soapy Water"
"Fluffy"
"The Wonderwhy"
"Moaning Lisa Smile"
"Storms"
"Heavenly Creatures"
"We're Not the Same"
"Blush"
"She"
"Nosedive"
"90 Mile Beach"
"Baby Ain't Made of China"
"I Saw You (In A Corridor)"
"Every Cloud"
"White Leather"
"Leaving You"
"The Judge" Twenty One Pilots Blurryface
"Love Me" The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are
So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
"UGH!"
"Somebody Else"2016
"The Sound"
"A Change of Heart"
"The 1975"
"She's American"
"If I Believe You"
"Please Be Naked"
"Lostmyhead"
"The Ballad of Me and My Brain"
"Loving Someone"
"I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are
So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It"
"This Must Be My Dream"
"Paris"
"Nana"
"She Lays Down"
"How to Draw"
"Cry Baby" Fickle Friends Non-album single
"Brooklyn" You Are Someone Else
  • Co-writer
  • producer
"Hello Hello"2017
"Boy" K.I.D Tired All of Time
"One Foot" Walk the Moon What If Nothing Producer
"Headphones"
"Press Restart"
"Surrender"
"All I Want"
"All Night"
"Kamikaze"
"Tiger Teeth"
"Sound of Awakening"
"Feels Good to Be High"
"Can't Sleep (Wolves)"
"In My Mind"
"Lost in the Wild"
"Acoustic"2018Billy Raffoul1975 EP
"Bite" Fickle Friends You Are Someone Else
  • Co-writer
  • producer
"Say No More"Producer
"In My Head (Ditty)"
  • Co-writer
  • producer
"Rotation"
"Paris"Producer
"Midnight"
"Useless"
  • Co-writer
  • producer
"Could You Be Mine?"Billy Raffoul1975 EPProducer
"Errors" K.I.D Tired All the Time
  • Co-writer
  • producer
"Taker"
"Prodigal Daughter"
"I Cannot Sleep at Night"
"Antisocial"
"Drunk Enough to Love Me"
"Waiting Room"
"Dillon"
"Crystal Universe"
"Imagining"
"Too High to Try/Raintree Lane"
"I'm Not a Saint"Billy Raffoul1975 EPProducer
"Forever"
"Until the Hurting is Gone"
"1975"
"Thru These Tears" LANY Malibu Nights
"I Don't Wanna Love You Anymore"
"Thick and Thin"
"Taking Me Back"
"If You See Her"
"Let Me Know"
"Run"
"Valentine's Day"
"Malibu Nights"
"OK OK?"2019 Half Alive Now, Not Yet
"Runaway"
"Maybe"
"Trust"
"Way Down We Go"KALEOA/BProducer/Mixer
"Number One Fan"MUNASaves the WorldProducer/Mixer
"who"
"Navy Blue"
"Never"
"Pinklight"
"Hands Off"
"Good News"
"Die a Little"YUNGBLUDProducer/Mixer
"Original Me (feat Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons"Imagine DragonsProducer/Mixer
"Tongue Tired"MARSHMELLO, BLACKBEAR, YUNGBLUDWriter
"mars"2020YUNGBLUDweird!Producer/Mixer
"lemonade"
"Mean It"LAUVHow I'm FeelingProducer
AlbumThe 1975Notes on a Conditional FormMixer
AlbumNothing But ThievesMoral PanicProducer/Mixer
EPBeabadoobeeLoveworm EPMixer
"Dying Breed"The KillersImploding the MirageWriter
Album2021LANYMama's BoyMixer
"Sex and Cigarettes"Jeremy ZuckerCrusherProducer
EPJake Wesley RodgersPlutoProducer / Mixer
"Paid For"Alison PonthierFaking My Own DeathProducer
"Harshest Critic"
HeightsWalk the MoonHEIGHTSProducer
Can You Handle My Love
Giants
DNA
Someone Else's Game
What You Can't Look Up
Population of Two
Album2022The WombatsFix Yourself Not the WorldMixer
AlbumBad SunsApocalypse WheneverMixer
"The Funeral"YungbludMixer
AlbumLAUVAll For NothingMixer
AlbumNoah CyrusThe Hardest PartProducer / Writer / Mixer
Album2023Chelsea CutlerTBCMixer
AlbumLANY A Beautiful Blur Producer / Writer / Mixer
AlbumNothing But ThievesDead Club CityMixer

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