New Music Initiative 066: Tracy Bryant
Jun. 18th, 2016 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23I mentioned that most of my new discoveries come from DJ-assembled playlists, most often Iowa Public Radio's excellent Studio One programming. Still, I have all the other standbys- there's so many ways to discover music in the 2010s. There's friends suggestions which have been huge and blogs which generally lead to excellent sources like bandcamp.
I could probably swing from bandcamp site to bandcamp site all day if I wanted. I don't have much free time, but even if I did, there's so much out there
One album I stumbled upon is Tracy Bryan's excellent "Subterranean". It probably caught my eye more than anything that it features drumming from the drummer of one of my favorite recent bands, the Mystic Braves.
With a plain name like Tracy Bryant, he's likely to get lost in the shuffle. i ashamedly did not know his history as frontman for post-punk band Corners.
In any case, better late than never, and Bryant's record blows me away. The reviews I read seem to paint him as some sort of goth surf punk, comparing his voice to Peter Murphy, and the names that pop up most are the Cramps and Gun Club, bands that evoke a certain image and sound.
That's probably not where I would go first, but I love it nevertheless. The sound is heavy on reverb and pays homage to 60s garage punk. It's not that much different than the Braves or bands like the Growlers.
Anyway, pretty solid record for a genre that can be hard to distinguish from what has come before.
I could probably swing from bandcamp site to bandcamp site all day if I wanted. I don't have much free time, but even if I did, there's so much out there
One album I stumbled upon is Tracy Bryan's excellent "Subterranean". It probably caught my eye more than anything that it features drumming from the drummer of one of my favorite recent bands, the Mystic Braves.
With a plain name like Tracy Bryant, he's likely to get lost in the shuffle. i ashamedly did not know his history as frontman for post-punk band Corners.
In any case, better late than never, and Bryant's record blows me away. The reviews I read seem to paint him as some sort of goth surf punk, comparing his voice to Peter Murphy, and the names that pop up most are the Cramps and Gun Club, bands that evoke a certain image and sound.
That's probably not where I would go first, but I love it nevertheless. The sound is heavy on reverb and pays homage to 60s garage punk. It's not that much different than the Braves or bands like the Growlers.
Anyway, pretty solid record for a genre that can be hard to distinguish from what has come before.
