He relocated to Smash/Mercury Records the following year, moved back to Philadelphia, and released his debut album, Big Drop, in June 2008.
[9] He released his single "Pressure Makes Diamonds" in October 2015 and premiered it on Pat Monahan's show on SiriusXM's The Pulse.
[11] In August 2016, Stanford announced he had scored two original songs for the upcoming J.K. Simmons film "The Bachelors," set for release in 2017.
[18] Later that year, he announced a new EP recorded in an old Los Angeles church titled Alone at the Pilgrim[19] set for release in November.
[22] In November, he began premiering a series of videos from the Alone at the Pilgrim sessions, produced by TAR+FEATHER,[23] leading up to the EP's release on December 7.