Kieron Menzies is a Canadian producer, songwriter and sound engineer. He has worked with Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowels since 2012 on mixing and engineering. He served as co-producer with Nowels on Del Rey's third major-label studio album Honeymoon (2015), as well as on her fourth major-label studio album, Lust for Life (2017). Menzies is also credited as a producer on one track from Del Rey's fifth major-label studio album, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019). As well as production, engineering, mixing and instrumentation, Menzies also has writing credits on a few of Del Rey's songs; most notably "High By The Beach" and "Get Free".
Work with Lana Del Rey[]
Menzies has worked with Rick Nowels since 2001, and his credits are very wide-ranging and include not only co-production, engineering and mixing but also instrumentation; drums, tape loops, percussion, keyboards, synth pads, strings, bass, electric guitar, vocoder and more. His production and engineering credits are listed below.
Credits[]
Songs from Born to Die (2012)[]
- 15. "Lucky Ones"
- Production role: Engineer.
Songs from Paradise (2012)[]
- 02. "American"
- Production role: Engineer, recording.
- 03. "Cola"
- Production role: Engineer, recording.
- Instrumentation: Drum Programming,
- 04. "Body Electric"
- Production role: Engineer, mixer, recording.
Songs from The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (2013)[]
- 03. "Young and Beautiful"
- Production role: Engineer, recording.
- Instrumentation: Programming.
- 20. "Young and Beautiful (DH Orchestral Version)"
- Production role: Recording.
Songs from Ultraviolence (2014)[]
- 06. "Sad Girl"
- Production role: Vocal Engineer.
- 12. "Black Beauty"
- Production role: Engineer.
- 13. "Guns and Roses"
- Production role: Engineer.
- 15. "West Coast" (Radio Mix)
- Production role: Engineer.
- Instrumentation: Drum Programming.
Songs from Big Eyes: Music from the Original Motion Picture (2014)[]
- 08. "I Can Fly"
- Production role: Engineer, Recording, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Percussion.
Songs from Honeymoon(2015)[]
- 01. "Honeymoon"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Effects.
- 02. "Music to Watch Boys To"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Percussion, Sampler [Samples].
- 03. "Terrence Loves You"
- Production role: Producer, ngineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Effects.
- 04. "God Knows I Tried"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Bass, Sampler [Samples].
- 05. "High By the Beach"
- Production role: Songwriter, producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Bass,Sampler [Samples], Synth, Effects.
- 06. "Freak"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Percussion, Bass [808 Bass].
- 07. "Art Deco"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Percussion, Synth.
- 08. "Burnt Norton (Interlude)"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- 09. "Religion"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Loops.
- 10. "Salvatore"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Percussion.
- 11. "The Blackest Day"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Bass, Synth, Sampler [Samples].
- 12. "24"
- Production role: Producer.
- 13. "Swan Song"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Loops [Drum Loops].
- 14. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
Songs from Lust for Life (2017)[]
- 01. "Love"
- Production role: Additional Producer, mixing, engineer.
- 02. "Lust for Life"
- Production role: Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Strings, Loops [Tape Loops].
- 03. "13 Beaches"
- Production role: Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Keyboards, Synthesizer, Drums, Percussion, Bass, Modem Sounds.
- 04. "Cherry"
- Production role: Additional Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Strings.
- 05. "White Mustang"
- Production role: Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Synthesizer, Strings, Drums, Percussion.
- 06. "Summer Bummer" (feat. A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti)
- Production role: Engineer, Mixing.
- 07. "Groupie Love (feat. A$AP Rocky)"
- Production role: Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Synthesizer, Keyboards, Drums, Percussion.
- 08. "In My Feelings"
- Production role: Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Piano, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Percussion.
- 09. "Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind"
- Production role: Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
- Instrumentation: Keyboards, Drums, Percussion, Loops [Tape Loops].
- 10. "God Bless America - and All the Beautiful Women in It"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Keyboards, Drums, Percussion, Field Recordings.
- 11. "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Synthesizers, Keyboards, Drums, Percussion.
- 12. "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems (feat. Stevie Nicks)"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Percussion.
- 13. "Tomorrow Never Came (feat. Sean Ono Lennon)"
- Production role: Engineer, mixer.
- 14. "Heroin"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- 15. "Change"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Keyboards, Drums, Percussion.
- 16. "Get Free"
- Production role: Songwriter, producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Synthesizer, Percussion, Field Recordings.
Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019)[]
- 09. "California"
- Instrumentation: Mellotron.
- 10. "The Next Best American Record"
- Production role: Producer, engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Drums, Programming, Effects.
- 12. "Bartender"
- Production role: Engineer, mixer.
- Instrumentation: Synthesizer.
Songs from Chemtrails Over the Country Club (2021)[]
- 08. "Yosemite"
- Production role: Engineer, mixer.
Songs from Blue Banisters (2021)[]
- 10. "Thunder"
- Production role: Producer [Additional Production], Engineer, mixer.
Songs currently unreleased[]
- "Angels Forever, Forever Angels"
- Production role: Mixer.
- "Black Beauty" (Demo)
- Production role: Mixer.
- "Come with Me"
- Production role: Mixer.
- "Dragonslayer"
- Production role: Engineer.
- "Hollywood"
- Production role: Mixer.
- "I Don't Wanna Go"
- Production role: Mixer.
- "JFK"
- Production role: Mixer.
- "Lust For Life" (Demo)
- Production role: Engineer, mixer.
- "Starry Eyed"
- Production role: Mixer.