Brnda - Total Pain

Brnda - Total PainBRNDA returns with Total Pain, a 12 track art punk whirlwind from the D. C. DIY all stars. Known for their off kilter wit, hypnotic talk singing, and all member vocals, the band blends flute solos, mood swings, and genre fusions into a singular sonic trip. Drawing from 60s Art Nouveau and punk, the album leaves the salt behind and embraces the voyeurism of the zoo a new chapter for the ever evolving BRNDA, built for active listening and analysis, not

Duncan delightfully juxtaposes the vibrant and wholesome aesthetic of the album with an often darker lyrical undertone

contemplative passages or surging into high-energy bursts of improvisation

At completion

‘You Don’t Know Me’

With the zaniness dialed down we are treated to some scorching rock with melodic multi-layered vocals

It was during the Sixties when Etta James truly found her musical direction and made a lasting mark as a soulful pop and blues diva

Spanning three years of writing and recording

both visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms

perfectly replicating the swagger of the original 1972 release

tries out the new compositional philosophy he had absorbed from his work with Adderley

solo work marking the opening of a new decade

yet continuing in perpetuity