History Music / Starflyer59

* ChessWithDeath: In the "No New Kinda Story" video, as a ShoutOut to ''TheSeventhSeal''.

* LyricsVideoMismatch: "No New Kinda Story". The lyrics are pretty vague, but seem to be about the singer's life being no different from a story. The video is a tribute to ''TheSeventhSeal'', with a man getting poisoned by his car's air conditioning and then losing [[ChessWithDeath a chess match against Death]].

'''Low & Behold''' is a GothRock / New Wave band, with Ryan Clark from Music/DemonHunter on vocals.

* ''Uppers'' (scheduled for October 2015)

In 2011, Starflyer 59 parted ways with Tooth & Nail Records. They continued making music, and released their 13th album (and first completely independent album), ''IAMACEO'', in January 2013.

'''Low & Behold''' is a GothRock / New Wave band, with Ryan Clark from Music/DemonHunter on vocals. They released a vinyl single, "Blood Red" b/w "Violent Sound", in 2011. An album is scheduled for early 2015.

'''Neon Horse''' is an AnonymousBand playing a mix of hard rock and synth-pop; fans were quick to speculate that it was a collaboration between Mark Salomon (lead singer of The Crucified and Stavesacre) and Jason Martin. Copyright records, and Neon Horse's sole live show, confirmed this to be true (and revealed that Stephen Dail is the bassist). Salomon's new band, White Lighter, seems to be a SpiritualSuccessor to Neon Horse, but J. Martin's only involvement is as the producer.

'''Neon Horse''' is an AnonymousBand playing a mix of hard rock and synth-pop; fans were quick to speculate that it was a collaboration between Mark Salomon (lead singer of The Crucified and Stavesacre) and Jason Martin. Copyright records, and Neon Horse's sole live show, confirmed this to be true (and revealed that Steven Dail is the bassist).

'''Low & Behold''' is a GothRock / New Wave band, with Ryan Clark from Music/DemonHunter on vocals. They released a vinyl single, "Blood Red" b/w "Violent Sound", in 2011. An album is scheduled for 2014.

'''Beach Bomber''' is a collaboration with Dave Bazan (formerly of Pedro the Lion). An album is scheduled for 2014.

Under the influence of the producer and keyboardist Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, Starflyer made an abrupt GenreShift to a lighter, Music/NewWave-influenced sound with undistorted guitars and melodic keyboards. Fans and critics were surprisingly receptive to the NewSoundAlbum ''The Fashion Focus'' and its even lighter followup ''Everybody Makes Mistakes''. Then, in 2000, Gene Eugene died.

* D. Brotherton: drums and percussion (on ''The Changing of the Guard'')

* '''Broken Arm''': A collaboration with Dave Bazan. They only recorded one song, which appeared on ''Ghosts of the Future'' with the title "Broken Arm", and (in heavily reworked form) on Bazan's album ''Curse Your Branches'' with the title "Lost My Shape".
* '''Low & Behold''': A GothRock / New Wave band, with Ryan Clark from Music/DemonHunter on vocals. They released a vinyl single, "Blood Red" b/w "Violent Sound", in 2011, but haven't been heard from since.

* CreatorRecovery: Their album ''Gold'' was written and recorded while Martin was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, due to the messy ends of several friendships and the stress of recording the album practically by himself. For the followup album, ''Americana'', he had a full band playing with him and producer Gene Eugene to help with the duties of recording, so it was a much more "fun" rock album. It's probably not a coincidence that Martin switched to playing New Wave music and almost entirely abandoned guitar distortion shortly afterwards.
* DoingItForTheArt: Jason has a day job; he's in this because he loves the music, not because he needs cash.

* MissingEpisode:
** That album by the side project Enemy Ships was never released, outside of being leaked to the internet.
** "Jim", an instrumental song laid down during the ''Old'' recording sessions (and mentioned several times in Jeff Cloud's online recording journal). The band cut it from the album, intending to release it on an EP later. Then the hard drive containing the only recording of the song was damaged, and Jason forgot how the song went. So "Jim" is lost forever.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Fashion Focus''.

* OldShame: Fans may love it, but Jason says he can't stand to listen to ''Silver'' any more.

* TroubledProduction: Owing to the departure of most of the band, and Jason's CreatorBreakdown, he barely finished recording ''Gold'' in time.

* LyricalShoehorn / WordSaladLyrics: Whether the lyrics of a given song have any meaning is a toss-up; Jason always writes the music first and lyrics second. Even the songs that do mean something are frequently padded with lyrics that were penned solely to sound good.

* CreatorBreakdown: ''Gold'' is the soundtrack to a barely-averted nervous breakdown. Jason's bandmates departed after the ''Silver'' tour, leaving Jason to record the follow-up album almost completely by himself. On top of this, Jason was feeling messed up over some friendships that had dissolved. That claustrophobia you feel in the finished album? That's Jason nearly suffocating under his own high expectations.
** Though Jason denies it, there's some WildMassGuessing that his breakup with Leigh Bingham[[note]]later known as Leigh Nash--yes, the lead singer of SixpenceNoneTheRicher[[/note]] also played a role.

The debut album, ''Silver'', was reverb- and distortion-drenched pop-rock--either one of the final first-wave {{Shoegazing}} albums, one of the first post-Shoegazing albums. Sf59's subsequent albums leaned more towards lounge (''Gold'') and hard rock (''Americana''), but the shoegaze label stuck, despite Jason's reluctance.[[note]]See the page quote. Also, J. Edward Keyes has noted that Jason's default reaction to the unavoidable Music/MyBloodyValentine comparisons was a dismissive, "We're not nearly as brilliant as they were."[[/note]] After three albums (and some songs intended for a fourth album that were ultimately shelved), Jason decided that he'd finished saying everything he wanted to say with guitar distortion, so it was time to do something different.

Under the influence of the producer and keyboardist Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, Starflyer made an abrupt GenreShift to a lighter, Music/NewWave-influenced sound with lighter guitars and melodic keyboards. Fans and critics were surprisingly receptive to the NewSoundAlbum ''The Fashion Focus'' and its even lighter followup ''Everybody Makes Mistakes''. Then, in 2000, Gene Eugene died.

* Stephen Dail: bass (from ''Ghosts of the Future'' to present)

'''Low & Behold''' is a GothRock / New Wave band, with Ryan Clark from Music/DemonHunter on vocals.
* "Blood Red" 12" maxi-single (2011)

'''Enemy Ships''' aka '''The Emergency''' was a short-lived hard rock supergroup that Jason played guitar and wrote a few songs for. They gained some major label interest, signed to Atlantic Records, recorded an album called ''The Emergency'', and then got inexplicably dropped. The unreleased album was leaked to the internet in mp3 form.

* UnpluggedVersion: Martin's song "Mr. Martin" started off as an electric guitar-heavy demo on the ''Ghosts of the Future'' boxed set, with a softer version on piano and acoustic guitar recorded as a B-side. Then when it came time to re-record the demos for the album ''Dial M'', the band decided they liked the B-side better, so the unplugged version became the official version. Then the next EP featured two more tracks from the album--"The Brightest of the Head" and "I Love You Like the Little Bird"--and a cover version of The Church's "Under the Milky Way", all performed in the same unplugged style.

** Though Jason denies it, there's some WildMassGuessing that his breakup with Leigh Bingham [[hottip:* :later known as Leigh Nash--yes, the lead singer of SixpenceNoneTheRicher]] also played a role.

In 2011, Starflyer 59 parted ways with Tooth & Nail Records. They continued making music, and released their 13th album (and first completely independent album), ''IAMACEOA'', in January 2013.

In 2011, Starflyer 59 parted ways with Tooth & Nail Records. Currently, Sf59's 13th album (and first completely independent album), ''IAMACEOA'', has been completed and is scheduled for an early 2013 release.

* OminousChanting: "I Like Your Photographs" from ''Leave Here a Stranger''; "Underneath" and "First Heart Attack", off ''Old''.

** ''IAMACEO Instrumentals'' cassette tape (scheduled for March 2013)

** ''IAMACEO Instrumentals'' casette tape (scheduled for March 2013)

'''The Brothers Martin''' saw Jason reunite with [[JoyElectric his brother Ronnie]] for the first time since the Dance House Children days. Both brothers' love for NewWave resulted in their collaborative album attempting to out-80's the 80's themselves. Now that Ronnie has relocated to Ohio, a follow-up album is very unlikely.

# ''IAMACEO'' (2013[[note]]Physical copies are scheduled for a January 2013 release, but as of December 2012, digital copies are already available to Kickstarter supporters and fans who preorder the vinyl[[/note]])

* RevisitingTheRoots: ''I Am the Portuguese Blues''.