Brandstifter & Cody Brant - YOUME?


Released: October 11

 A four part series of delicately arranged field recordings, YOUME? catalogs a single day in an apartment in Mainz. These recordings capture so indelibly the ambiance of a single day in a small town on the river as we hear much of what we would expect including the squawking of geese, clunking of objects from the next room, softy stepping through the apartment, and the general ambiance of the room itself. Virtually all of this recording was done by Brandstifter while Cody provides infrequent spoken word from unspecified found texts. 

Some of the recordings are rather soft and gentle, like in the first of four separate tracks in which we hear little more than the ambiance and some wind chimes. It feels very concrete in a way, conjuring up memories of my own of sitting on a porch listening to the sound of the wind gently blowing, barely even enough to feel but making soft audible noises as it floated through tree branches. In the middle of this ambiance, the spoken words come in to the picture, just audible enough to catch every few words clearly. 

There isn’t really a particular progress to this day. Rather it meanders about, giving us a sort of slice of life view of what is happening in this room and its immediate surrounding, though it is an obscured one that we must discern. But the final entry in this audio diary is the most boisterous, opening up with a guitar being wailed on incoherently, at times sounding more like a chainsaw or weed whacker than a guitar. But as it goes on, it sounds like the guitar is suddenly joined by other instruments and we are suddenly listening to the impromptu jam as Brant’s vocals continue to speak, this time about his driveway. Unsure what it is about but it melds with the unexpected music in a seamless if not a bit trippy way. 


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