Beach Fossils' Dustin Payseur Starts New Label, Signs Several Artists

Beach Fossils frontman Dustin Payseur and former Captured Tracks label manager Katie Garcia got married earlier this year, but it was apparently all just a cheap scheme to fund their new record label, Bayonet Records.

"We were like, Nobody give us gifts," Payseur told FADER (via Brooklyn Vegan). "If you're going to give us something, then just give us money because we're trying to get this thing started."

Payseur and Garcia have wanted to own a label since they were kids.

"I found these cassettes from when I was a kid, where I was recording me screaming 'F--k' into the mic over a drum machine, and I'd put like fake record label names and logos on them," Paysuer said.

Added Garcia: "I always knew growing up I wanted to work in music. Once Dustin started talking to me about how he wanted to seriously pursue [the label], it became the natural progression for me to help him manage it, since that's something I already knew how to do."

The roster already includes Beach Fossils, which recently left Captured Tracks, as well as Jerry Paper and Frank Cosmos. The first official release will be a reiussue of Warehouse's Tesseract.

And some new Fossils will likely come down the pipe in 2015.

"Since I'm putting the record out myself, I feel like I have the time to just relax and take it slow," Payseur said. "I've always had a lot of freedom — [Captured Tracks labelhead] Mike Sniper always trusted me, and that's something I want to share with the artists we sign."

Added Garcia: "That's the whole reason we sign them. We like them as artists and we don't want to change anything about them."

Check out the first offering from Bayonet below: