Brandon Krebs

refuge in exile

brandon krebs

Avant-Garde Pop for everyone, filled with romantically gloomy soul voyages. Refuge in Exile is the second full release from Brandon Krebs, Seattle-based singer, songwriter, producer, who started creating music under his own name for this release. A change up from the guitar-centric release "Tethered to a Piece of Falling Sky" (under the moniker Stranded Sullivan), Refuge in Exile's instantly breath taking sweep and rhythmic hooks challenge its title's reveal of how it was made intimately & mindfully in an uncertain two-year period of the artist's life. The nine-song full length due out on vinyl in March 2017, comes from an urgently transitional period in which Krebs moved four times in 4 years. Refuge majestically opens the sound-scape up to many layers of texture, with unusual arrangements and fascinatingly diverse melodies in its chamber-rock elegance. The album explores the themes of treasured solitude and the struggle to be oneself and live the life one wants to live rather than pursue a path you're taught to want and the inherent struggles that follow.