Brandon - Before You Go CD
Brandon Joseph known simply as
Brandon emerged from Southern California's rich creative
landscape with a sound that blends understated vulnerability
and genre-defying ambition. Brandon found his voice through
trial-and-error, persistence and vision, and his songs bear the
marks of his resourcefulness: Brandon taught himself guitar by
ear, he plays every instrument on virtually every track, and he
not only self-produced his debut, he mixed every song as well,
finding harmony in their myriad layers. Following the success of
Coming Clean and Blush, Brandon's debut album with Secretly
Canadian, set for release in May 2025, is both deeply personal
and sonically ambitious.
Written and recorded entirely in his home studio, some
of the songs on Before You Go incubated for years while
Brandon's talent and resources caught up to the visions in his
mind. A first-ever trip to his family home in Trinidad proved
formative as well. There, Brandon's worldview became more
relaxed, more peaceful, and his music followed suit. "I learned to
take my time," he explains, "to look at life differently, and to look
at people without the transactional mindset." The result is a
collection of songs that aren't afraid to be confidently
understated.
Lead single "Right Back" embodies Brandon this, with
bright, minimal acoustic guitar underneath Brandon's warm,
romantic vocals. The song opens at the intersection of folk and
R&B (think early Frank Ocean or Steve Lacy) but it cracks open
into something bigger - a windows-down, major-key floater
with wistful lyrics, a feather-light syncopated beat and an
irresistible, anthemic feel. Known for his magnetic performances
alongside Omar Apollo and Mac Ayres, Brandon's soulful voice
cement his place as one of the most compelling new
singer-songwriters to emerge in years.
Label: Secretly Canadian
UPC: 656605049724
Release Date: May 09, 2025
Track List
- You Look Like Love
- Right Back
- Serotonin
- 2 Good
- Incomplete
- Miss U
- The Sun
- September
- You
- Seeing Stars
- Her Too