Brandon Can’t Dance

A homegrown hero of Philly’s tight-knit D.We.Y. picture, Brandon Ayres released many digital-only albums of home-recorded lo-fi pop before putting your signature on a record offer and issuing his initial “correct” record in 2017. Ayres was raised in the middle-class Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill and began producing music at age 11 along with his friend Josh Phillips in the duo Rasputin’s Magic formula Law enforcement. He became mixed up in D.We.Y. picture at age group 16 after finding Philly’s experimental Faux Fetus Collective, which, he stated, “changed my entire life.” Using rudimentary equipment, he begun to compose and record his very own lo-fi, loop-based music in the home, and in 2007 released the to begin a slew of digital-only albums on Bandcamp beneath the moniker Brandon Can’t Dance. His function was eclectic, with brief songs (mainly under two mins) flitting from ’90s-design indie rock and roll to melodic, falsetto synth-pop and everything among, often using a sardonic lyrical bent. Together with his solo function, he also continuing to record using the likewise prolific Rasputin’s, which became area of the Faux Fetus Collective. He performed many concert events, both single and with Rasputin’s, and over another 10 years became a staple from the Philly D.We.Con. circuit, all while keeping down employment being a protection guard and looking after his infirm grandmother, whom he resided with alongside his mom and sister. Ayres discovered fame beyond your Philly scene generally by association after various other artists engrossed began to become better known, included in this Alex G, Eskimeaux, and LVL Up. In 2015 he was name-dropped within an interview as a significant impact by Alex G, who was simply himself later on hyped from the after that-über-hip Frank Sea. In 2016, Ayres was authorized by London’s Lucky Quantity label, which reissued an array of songs from his LXVE II recording as the LXVE EP. His debut physical launch adopted, the full-length recording Graveyard of MEMORIES. The solitary “Smoke cigarettes and Drive Around” was along with a music video of Ayres performing exactly that. To market the recording, he embarked on the U.S. tour with Alex G and LVL Up.