Paul Schalda - Lately [Signed LP]

Release Date: November 7th, 2025 Limited qty of signed covers with the Metallic Goldfish variant. On his debut solo album, Lately, Paul Schalda channels the human experience with a transparent, poetic purity. With instinctive melodies and a singularly visceral voice, Schalda’s folk-flecked indie soul is at once vulnerable, personal, and hugely relatable. “The goal was to mix the energy of my East Coast family with my new Texas family,” said Schalda, who moved from his native Staten Island to Dallas eight years ago. “It’s an ode to the human experience … of leaving all my roots behind and navigating new terrain.”  The songs on this album are subconsciously steeped in his relocation, separation, and boundless love for his kids. Indeed, Lately is a record permeated with love in all its incarnations: romantic, familial, parental, brotherly, and musical.  Recorded to tape at Niles City Sound in Fort Worth Texas, Lately carries forward that rare spirit, channeling it into a set of compositio