Brandon

More than a singer-songwriter or polymath of any particular kind, Brandon is a musician’s musician, through and through. Growing up, Brandon had no immediate access to a music program, and even when he found one he encountered new hurdles, first to find a left-handed guitar, then a teacher who could teach him. Early releases were beautiful markers of Brandon's personal and intimate songwriting. As his palette grew, so did his confidence and vision; an inveterate multi-instrumentalist, he wrote and recorded every song and every instrument on Blush himself.

Recorded just a few months prior to Blush’s release, these four songs carry an urgency befitting Brandon’s first release with Secretly Canadian. “There are songs on my next album that I made in 2018,” he says. “They still feel true to me, but their meanings might change over time. These feel so immediate. I’m proud of them,” he says, “and I’m also proud of what I’m saying in them. They’re songs to make you feel,” Brandon says plainly. “They invite you in and they’re joyful.”

Blush is in some ways a prologue to the deeper memoir that will be Brandon’s forthcoming debut album, due in 2025. The EP is a snapshot of the current moment before his bigger, life-spanning tome, a nighttime whisper before a bright, airy dawn. By bringing us to the current moment first, Brandon shows us who he is: content and confident in his present, inviting us in with beauty, generosity, and a taste of what’s to come.