Notable works include the Grammy-nominated debut album by Roomful of Teeth, the pulitzer prize winning Partita for 8 Voices by Caroline Shaw, and album covers for artists such as Glenn Kotche, Nadine Shah JFDR, Tyshawn Sorey, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Mary Halvorson.
[1] Heavy Ghost is characterized by densely-layered music, featuring strings and horns on top of Stith's guitar and piano tracks.
[2] In September 2015, Stith's collaboration with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, Shara Nova and Padma Newsome, was released on New Amsterdam Records.
Unremembered, a thirteen-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra, and electronics, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer Nathaniel Bellows (W.W. Norton, HarperCollins), is a meditation on innocence and memory.
His second studio album, Pigeonheart, produced by Ben Hillier (Blur, Elbow, Nadine Shah) was released on July 29, 2016, with positive reviews, including a score of 70 on Metacritic.
's hit single Man on the Moon, lead singer Michael Stipe compared DM's voice to PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone and Perfume Genius.