Los Angeles musician Tracy Bryant, as a one of a kind solo artist, is spreading the sound of a more outstanding type of rock 'n' roll. With his work, he is filling the gap between light-pop-arrangements and the diversity of an as dark, as deep, rememberable sound. One not hard to enter, but no way to just pass by. While Tracy Bryant’s music may call out as a memento from the lonely highway, we can’t help but wish to join him on his journey.
As the frontman and founder of post-punk experimentalists Corners, he recorded the group’s first album, Beyond Way, in his Echo Park apartment with just a four-track tape recorder, a few guitars and a snare drum. While the follow-up LP, Maxed out on Distractions, was very much a group effort, Bryant has continued to cultivate the haunted, solitary sounds that permeate through Beyond Way on his own.
Tracy Bryant’s solo debut was the well-received 2014 split cassette with Corners com...
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Los Angeles musician Tracy Bryant, as a one of a kind solo artist, is spreading the sound of a more outstanding type of rock 'n' roll. With his work, he is filling the gap between light-pop-arrangements and the diversity of an as dark, as deep, rememberable sound. One not hard to enter, but no way to just pass by. While Tracy Bryant’s music may call out as a memento from the lonely highway, we can’t help but wish to join him on his journey.
As the frontman and founder of post-punk experimentalists Corners, he recorded the group’s first album, Beyond Way, in his Echo Park apartment with just a four-track tape recorder, a few guitars and a snare drum. While the follow-up LP, Maxed out on Distractions, was very much a group effort, Bryant has continued to cultivate the haunted, solitary sounds that permeate through Beyond Way on his own.
Tracy Bryant’s solo debut was the well-received 2014 split cassette with Corners compatriot Billy Changer, which was released on Lolipop Records and Burger Records before quickly selling out. Imbued with the studied swagger of Nikki Sudden and the emotionally damaged earnestness of Johnny Thunders, his songs are a logical extension of Beyond Way’s dark Americana, with layered acoustic guitars, hypnotic electric leads and hushed vocals setting an eerily inviting tone.
For his next effort, Subterranean, (out February 19th, 2016 on Burger Records), Bryant decamped to the Arizona desert to record with The Resonars’ Matt Rendon. Tracked mostly live with the help of friends Joo-Joo Ashworth and Jeremy Katz (Froth), and Cameron Gartung (Mystic Braves), the album feels informed by the bottomless, barren canyons and still, black nights that stretch across the American Southwest. Deftly switching gears between The Gun Club’s piercing howl and Peter Murphy’s brooding goth-pop.
Bryant embarked on a European acoustic-tour in September, 2015, where he performed ten well-received one man shows. While on the road in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he recorded an acoustic version of his song "17,000 Miles". It takes place as the b-side of a 7” single release of the full band recording "I'm Not There" for La Suisse Primitive Records in early 2016.
"I'm Not There" will also appear with the track "The Little Things" on the upcoming vinyl compilation, "Life Is...", which is set for release in December, 2015 on Mono Records. The compilation features artists deemed as "The new sound of Los Angeles", including bands Froth, Kwid (Dirt Dress), Mother Merry Go-Round and more. Bryant also released a limited 7” of "The Little Things" b/w "Until The End of Time" on Mono earlier this year.
As his latest efforts, Bryant's song "Come Around" was used for the record breaking video by skate publication "Thrasher Magazine" which had over one million views in its first week. He also takes place in the soundtrack for the new Volcom surf film "Psychic Migrations" which features songs by Thee Oh Sees, White Fence & more. The film, by director Ryan Thomas, has premiered in theaters all over the globe and is set to be released worldwide on DVD on November 3rd, 2015. It features the Tracy Bryant track "Subterranean" as well as the Corners track "Against It".
While Bryant is not considering to take a break, he is working on a conceptual rock ‘n’ roll acoustic album which he will record in January, 2016 in Berlin, Germany with the help of Leonard Kaage (Last drummer of German psych band The Blue Angel Lounge and part of Anton Newcombe's and Tess Parks' backing band).
As also, he will be touring Europe in February & March, 2016 to promote his new record, backed by Joo-Joo Ashworth, Jeremy Katz (Froth) and Danny Kendrick of post-punk band The Mallard.
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