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Freshly Baked Studios is owned and operated by Alexander Almgren, a music producer from Yorkshire, England. His credits include 17 albums that have reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200, five of which have reached the top three. He has worked with artists such as Born Cages, Skylar Spence, Bondax, Brand New, Dar Williams, Vanessa Carlton, and Smoke DZA. He worked on Born Cages’ acclaimed track “Don’t Look Back,” for which he received a gold record in 2015.
Almgren was trained in jazz and classical music, and went on to study popular music and music technology at the University of Huddersfield. After graduating, Almgren moved to New York City to work with Neil McClellan at The Lodge Music Production House, where he created advertising music for products such as Dentyne gum and Hot Wheels toy cars. Not long after, he began working with Gary Philips on production for a major children’s music brand, as well as working with various Razor & Tie Recordings artists. Almgren continues producing children’s pop music to this day, which requires him to identify each component of a successful pop song in order to recreate it. This process has helped him develop a hyper-awareness of what goes into the production of a hit song. In 2015, Almgren opened Freshly Baked Studios in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he produces for a wide variety of artists.
Almgren’s production allows a song’s strengths to shine through on the track. “For me, it’s always about connecting with the feeling of the song,” he says. “I see my job as bringing different aspects of the song in and out of focus to lead the listener to the most important moments.”