I make a lot of music! On this page pf the library, you can find my discography, as well as my thoughts on my own releases. Meta!
MOLLUSK (2022)
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BRYNG'S THOUGHTS
Mollusk was my first real musical effort, and I think that above all it shows how much I learned while making it. Songs like Rapture, Going Down, and some others got released in demo form on an EP before the albums release, and they're mixed really loud for no reason. That was the real bane of this album, learning how to make my music an acceptable volume. I do think Mollusk is a really good first album, but it does suffer a lot from being early in my career. I really like the song Little Girl though.
PINK STAR (2023)
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Pink Star is the first album I really really enjoy. Mollusk was fine, but this album just steps it up a whole notch. Pink Star is about femininity and my personal journey to obtaining it. Pink Star doesn't really tell that story though, it's just a very thoroughly thought through collection of songs. I do this on a lot of albums and I did it on Mollusk, but I really like it when the first track on an album links together with one of the last. In this case, March of the Trinity is referenced in Repent of the Trinity. Neat. Dead Blossom was from a now-dead concept album about death and rebirth. Боль весны means "The Pain of Spring".
SUN & SNOW (2023)
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Sun & Snow is really my earliest "great work". It's a strangely emotionally distant album, it doesn't really tell anyone much about me except that I don't like the snowy weather. It took a huge part of me to release this, I was perfectly content keeping what I view as my first masterpiece entirely to myself, but my love for all of you got the better of me. Sun & Snow is about the general feeling of abandonment and resignation I feel whenever the winter weather rolls around. I think the real defining song on this album is 'A Room, Lit By Snowlight', the longest song and closest to drone I've gotten so far (don't worry, I'm working on it). The song really exhumes the real feeling of being trapped alone in a dark but still light room. My personal favorite song from this is White Flags, I think it's probably my best song ever. The heavy use of violin on this album represents radiation. Do with that knowledge what you will! I was always sad that this album never really took off, but to be fair none of my albums have taken off so I can't be too upset.
ALMOND (2023)
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Almond is a spiritual sequel to Pink Star, but also a break from the seriousness of Sun & Snow. In almost every way Almond is just Pink Star again, it's bright and mostly cheerful, about 20 minutes long, and even directly references it! The album cover is a lightly edited picture, taken by Carol Highsmith, of South Pass, Wyoming. 'Theme of the Lynx' is about TJ from Echo. Phytoplankton got a really good remix later on down the line. This album uses a concept that was going to be on Pink Star, where after Dead Blossom a song named Pink Star was going to play. This album does that with Death of a Pink Star and Almond.
THE PRIDE OF THE SCHOOL (2023)
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As of now (Sept. 2023) I believe that this album is my magnum opus. It's an album about schooling and how it's harmful, and also really really boring. This isn't why I believe it's my greatest work, that's because of the tracklisting. It all builds up throughout the whole thing, with the songs Volante and Cry of Campanella represnting outburts, when times are so tough that you can't hold it in anymore. It's the last track though, 'It Is Your Turn To Present" that I think really makes the album. It's an improv piece, not disimilar to how any presentation I'd put on in school was improv. I'm trying to say that it's your turn to make things, your turn to relish in the divine act of creation, no matter how good or bad you think you are at whatever you do. Go out and do something right now!!! GO!!!!!
okay now for some fun facts: Caesar is named after the Ween demos compilation, Malaise means to be uncomfortable without a clear reason, Volante is named after the album Disco Volante, and June, Oh June is a reference to 'July, July!" by The Decemberists.
PETTICOAT (2023)
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SLEEPING
DREAMING
NIGHTMARES
BRYNG'S THOUGHTS
Petticoat is a spiritual sequel to Sun & Snow. It's a 40 minute long, deeply personal, and they're both concept albums. Petticoat tells the rough story of someone reconciling with a wasted and ruined childhood, reflecting on how they came to be, and growing a new outlook on the world. I seperated it into 3 sections, "Sleeping", "Dreaming", and "Nightmares" so that this concept might come across better. I really leaned into sampling on this one, with practically every song having a sample in it. My favorite sample use is at the end of The Loving Wife, which samples a section of a short monologue from the movie Funny Games U.S.. I also really like the dreamcast opening at the end of Sleeping Bends, I put it there to symbolize the transition between the Sleeping section and the Dreaming section. Confused at this sampling talk? You might be used to the streaming cut of this album. That's right, there are 2 seperate cuts of Petticoat, one with the samples and one without, because there was no way in hell I could clear any of these samples.