Emotional Alternative Vibes

Sedan Sedan began in Carlin Johnson's garage in 2012. It was just four scrappy twenty-somethings putting all the time and resources we could into our shared love of music. We were lucky to have practiced together almost every weekend for about 13 years. Bit by bit over the years, we renovated the garage into a nice, air conditioned, sound treated studio space and used it to build a catalog we're proud of.

In 2018, we started releasing music we recorded in our own space. The first three singles ("Swimming", "Backing Away", and "Movement") were mainstays in our energetic live shows. We applied what we learned from releasing those singles in our first EP, All That Glitters is Glitter. The plan was to spend 2020 playing shows, but then COVID happened, making that quite impossible.

This could have very easily been the end, but we adapted. We started collaborating remotely, using Guitar Pro to share song ideas, and recording demos for a large batch of songs written all at once. We worked hard together to make each piece intentional and personal. Over the years, we each had experiences of love, loss, anxiety and self-reinvention, and Sedan Sedan was a creative outlet for us to process those feelings.
We teamed up with a local studio, AudioConfusion, for mixing and mastering. The result would finally come out in 2023, with our first full length album, A Frame Around Nothing.


We began making music videos and short-form content, starting with the "Feels Like Shouting" music video that you can find on the Music page here. Next we planned a follow up release, the EP Curse (2025). It includes some songs that didn't quite fit with AFAN, and a few Sedan Sedan classics we'd played since our earliest shows, "Serfing" and "I need a wizard!", which we remade from the ground up.

We decided to step away from Sedan Sedan to follow our own roads, but we set up this site to cherish what we had. Thank you to everyone who worked with us and/or came out to support us over the years.

Each of us put a part of our soul into our music and the projects we worked on together. We had so much fun making friends across Phoenix, playing shows and getting to share our music with you. We love ya.

Sedan Sedan is:

  • Carlin Johnson (vocals, guitar)
  • Ella Dandy (guitar, back-up vocals)
  • Dominic Mayr (bass guitar, back-up vocals)
  • William Slone (drums, guitar)