The album is produced by former Altered Images band member and acclaimed producer Stephen Lironi and features 12 songs that Clare Grogan has co-written with Stephen, Bernard Butler and Bobby Bluebell. It’s an upbeat and contemporary sounding album which sounds like a natural progression of the Altered Images journey and sound, all topped with the instantly recognisable vocals of Clare Grogan. Instead, he’s like a documentarian of trying times of what it feels like to grow a new epidermis instead.Īfter a thirty eight year hiatus, the rejuvenated band have just completed putting the finishing touches to the first Altered Images music since the album “Bite” was released in 1983. Here he examines that self-destructive tenderness, observant of the way he was then but not fraught over it. He was stuck in a cycle, unable to escape, and every time he sat down the self-loathing and demons came out. It was isolating in the usual ways for that time, of course, but he was also juggling a number of relationships that were unhealthy for a myriad of reasons. Stocker wrote these songs from March to November of 2020. Is that a mode for something true? Even if it’s evil? When you operate without goodness in mind. Instead, Stocker wonders what happens when you die and are reborn as a demon. It’d be easy to say it’s in response to Stocker’s deeply religious upbringing, but that’s too simple – instead, it’s an exercise in “what if’s?,” leaning into the dark side, interested in exploring what it means to be satanic without ever mentioning a devil – or any type of God, or religion – by name. Even the title vies for blasphemy Stocker’s attempt to divorce his first name from its loaded religious meaning and instead take ownership of it. The 12 songs collected here are intended to signify a new brotherkenzie era: one embracing sex and heathen ideals. The record is a re-introduction to Stocker’s solo output as brotherkenzie his last release, 2020’s BIG WHAT closed the first chapter of the project, while Nathan explores the afterlife of a creative death. A final look-a-round at the dirt you’ve known your whole life before descending to the eternal what-have-you. It’s an artifact of what happens when you listen to, and obey, your demons. The looming black mass is a physical manifestation of narcissism – and Nathan is an exhaustive exploration of that. It’s like a snapshot of calm caught in a moment before something bad happens, but you don’t know quite what that bad is yet. On the cover of Nathan, Stocker is about to be enveloped by an enormous black box in a deadened Minnesotan sprawl, framed by the eeriness of placid blue skies, the suggestion of a cold wind. Brotherkenzie’s music is a chasm carved from honesty and earnestness, the result teetering between catchiness and pop, but with sharp edges. With Bersten’s help the band was able to take some of the weirder and more ambitious ideas they had and turned them into reality making this a fantastic album for immersive headphone listening.īrotherkenzie is the solo output from Minneapolis producer and songwriter Nathan Stocker – and, through the project, lives in the shadows, operating on the outskirts of the music industry, something he’s grown increasingly less interested in as he ages. All the echoes were made with old echoplexes and tape delay, which made for a really organic record. We produced the record ourselves with our long time friend/collaborator/engineer Kevin Bernsten who re corded our first two records.” The recordings that the band created using innovative recording techniques, recording 100% analog are sonically transportive and certain to mystify and inspire generations of recording artists.
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Per front man Kyle Durfey, “Something that we really took away from this experience was just the connection we had together. The band lived together, recorded together and ate dinners to gether where they would listen to the day’s recordings, talk about them and pull them apart and reworking them, creat ing what may be their finest album to date.
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