Permanent Collection

Permanent Collection fuses the abrasive guitar textures of shoegaze with the raw emotional edge of post-punk and intermittent dream pop layers, yielding a palette that stretches from the effects-pedal haze of the 2012 release Nearly Wed Nearly Dead to the dense doomgaze weight of Nothing Good Is Normal, remaining recognizable yet sufficiently skewed to stand apart.

Jason Hendardy established the project after serving as guitarist in the San Francisco shoegaze outfit Young Prisms through the period immediately following their 2011 album Friends for Now. Working solo, he explored a variant of the shoegaze sound that incorporated the noisier elements of C86, issuing the EP Delirium on his Loglady imprint in July 2011. Following a handful of solo performances, he expanded the lineup with bassist Megan Dabkowski, guitarist Brenden Nerfa, and drummer Mike Stillman. This quartet tracked the denser, more noise-scarred album Nearly Wed Nearly Dead in August 2012, with Hendardy handling production alongside recording engineer Monte Vallier and final mastering by Kramer, after which the group completed several U.S. tours.

Lineup stability eroded by 2013, with frequent guest guitar appearances from Corey Cunningham of the Bay Area band Terry Malts. The eventual recording configuration reduced to the trio of Hendardy, Nerfa, and Stillman, which captured the darker, punk-leaning EP No Void toward the end of 2013. Additional live activity followed before the band entered hiatus, prompting Hendardy to focus on video production and photography. Activity resumed in late 2019 as he began solo tracking for the next album, introducing metallic influences and self-releasing Nothing Good Is Normal in June 2020.