“I no longer had to play football anymore. I was being a brat but I wasn’t wrong. It illuminated a path for me that went beyond yuppy suburbia. It was time to squander my good fortune pursuing the arts.” He took a gap year, applied to a music college in Boston, and music became life there after. Now based in the Catskill Mountains, O’Meara has spent the last five years creating Bathe in the Everlasting Light, an album that marries the banalities of suburban life with questions of mortality and meaning. Working with Sam Evian and Sufjan Stevens on production and engineering, O’Meara approached the record as a collaborative songwriting project, bringing in Hannah Cohen and Meg Lui on background vocals. The result is what he describes as “moody Americana, suburban mysticism” – music that asks what it might look like to “meet god on the way to Chipotle.”

O’Meara’s musical journey has been marked by pivotal moments of scale and intimacy. In 2015-2016, he opened for Lianne La Havas across sold-out venues in the US, including a solo set for 3,000 people at Terminal 5. In 2017, he recorded a collection of songs in a single day on a Tascam 4-track recorder, creating If I Could Leave – an album Zach Bryan loved so much he pressed it on vinyl himself. In September 2025, O’Meara opened for Bryan at Michigan’s Big House, performing for 112,000 people in what remains a US record for a single concert.

Bryan has since signed O’Meara to Belting Bronco Records. This May and June, O’Meara opens five European stadium dates for Bryan before releasing Bathe in the Everlasting Light on June 26, 2026. Drawing comparisons to Cameron Winter, Gregory Alan Isakov, and Bon Iver, O’Meara makes music for anyone willing to sit with life’s biggest questions.

“We are all gonna die,” he says, “and I am of the opinion that everyone ought to know.”