CATALDO - TWO WAY MIRROR

Eric Anderson—who has been releasing music as Cataldo for more than a decade—turns his gaze to the Two Way Mirror. The reflection unpleasant, the unseen observer unsettling. The album’s title track unpacks a paradox of intimacy and performance. When one strikes a confessional pose…to whom are you confessing? Yourself or the listener? 

Anderson’s searching, wry, and breathtakingly direct songs reconcile this contradiction—an unsparing breakup letter with the parts of himself he’s desperate to escape and full-throated defense of their troubled, ongoing relationship.

Recorded at Altamira Sound with producer Andy D. Park (Pedro the Lion, Deep Sea Diver) the album assembles some of the Los Angeles’s most notable and exciting session players: Harrison Whitford (Phoebe Bridgers, Vulf) on guitar, Spencer Zahn (Dawn Richard, Cassandra Jenkins) on bass, Rob Shelton (Meernaa, Luke Temple) on keys, and Levi Matulis on drums. Guest vocalists Jessica Dobson (Deep Sea Diver), Al Menne (Great Grandpa), and Abby Gundersen lend their unmistakable voices.

Recorded live on the floor, the arrangements breathe and swell, every take a winning streak, the players hanging on each other’s every musical word. The sound is vistavision—Park captures a grandeur and detail that perfectly compliments the writing and performance.

Outside of music, Anderson and his wife run Good Luck Bread, a sourdough frozen pizza outfit that’s become a Seattle staple—a detail that underlines the dual lives many working artists navigate. That same balance—between the practical and the poetic, the everyday and the existential—threads through the album.

Two Way Mirror doesn’t try to resolve the contradictions at its core. Instead, it invites the listener into its reflection: Can authentic personal inquiry also be a performance? What version of the self can be trusted, and what slips away in the effort to pin it down? In tracing the contours of these questions, Anderson beckons the listener to push their face against the glass and as the title track suggests, break on through the Two Way Mirror.