Ham Radio – Tirades & Tragedies Is Out Now
From the very beginning of Gold Ship Records, one thing has always mattered more than anything else: artistic freedom. Trusting artists to be exactly who they are. Valuing the work, the process, and the people behind the songs more than streams, algorithms, or numbers on a dashboard. That mindset might feel like a relic from another era, but it is the foundation everything here is built on.
When Ham Radio joined the Gold Ship family, it was never about projections or expectations. It was about relationship. Family, trust, loyalty. I believed deeply in their songwriting and their potential, but I could never have predicted what we would experience together with Tirades & Tragedies.
These are not songs written to fit a formula. These are songs written straight from the heart. Songs that pull you out of your comfort zone and ask you to feel every lyric, every chord, every snare hit, the sax on “BitterEnd” with the occasional sub drop shaking the floor.
Photo: Katy Sergent
“When we wrote this record we went through so much. The death of our ex bandmate Tyler. I went through some insane relationship struggles. And I was drinking too much. This record perfectly defines going through hardships in your life. The good and the bad. It is all mixed in together. It talks about love, and losing love. And that is just life.
Stephan and I worked on writing these songs for about a year in advance. Then, between working jobs and home life, we recorded the record over the course of another year. After that, it took about half a year to get it mixed and mastered. I am just extremely proud of the entire outcome.”
Jamon Lee
Tirades & Tragedies is a reflection of youth, loss, love, mistakes, and growth. The kind of growth that only comes from living fully and honestly. It is a record shaped by time, not pressure.
“Creating Tirades was not just writing and recording an album, it was a three year long self reflective journey. We approached it without time constraints or creative limitations, taking all the pressure off ourselves and just pouring ourselves into the songs. The result is an autobiography of the highest highs and the lowest lows of the last ten years of our lives.
My favorite moment in the studio was piecing together songs like Headache and Half Empty from seemingly forgotten old lyric sheets and demos from years past. Those songs are kind of like Frankenstein’s monsters and they ended up having so much good storytelling in their DNA because of that.”
Stephan Yampolsky
This is the kind of album you do not outgrow. This is the record we will still be streaming 30 years from now. Not out of bias, but out of admiration. Admiration for the courage it took to write it. For the passion and pain poured into it. For the honesty it refuses to hide.
Today, Tirades & Tragedies is officially out in the world, and we could not be more proud to stand behind it.
In the words of Ham Radio, “Go jam that rig.”
Andrew Sergent
Gold Ship Records
