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London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren?t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, half-drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan?s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate, at times spuriously broad, peppered with pitch-black humour.
His debut album Dead Capital was recorded at Berlin?s Candybomber Studio, located in the now-defunct Tempelhof Airport. Produced alongside acclaimed Irish songwriter A.S. Fanning and legendary engineer Ingo Krauss, whose credits run from noise-merchants Einsturzende Neubauten to tango pioneer Astor Piazolla,
Dead Capital brings together a body of work shaped through dozens of live shows in London and further afield. It was released to critical acclaim in February 2018 with For Folks Sake remarking ?Dead Capital is an overwhelmingly beautiful album forged from hopelessness?.
He recently decamped to the legendary Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside to begin work on the follow up to ?Dead Capital? alongside a stellar cast of musicians. The eagerly anticipated sophomore album promises to cement the reputation of what Artree has described as ?one of the most interesting performers in folk today? and is due for release in 2022
?There are moments in life when a song just stops you. From the very first second to the second it ends, all you can do is listen, caught under it?s spell. When it feels like the song fills the air around you, and all you can do is breathe it in? HOLLER
A master storyteller with a voice like rolling thunder" GQ
"He's someone capable of turning the bleak into beautiful and relateable" GIGWISE
"Louis Brennan should perhaps come with a warning sticker: ?Parental advisory: explicit existential despair.?" FOR FOLK'S SAKE
"His wry tales manage to make that which is moribund sound full of life" R2
"His ability to twist and turn a simple phrase can render the most innocent line into something utterly heartbreaking." CLASH
"Painful, searing lyrics, darkness so bleak you feel you?ll never find a way out, but then laugh out loud moments that are life-affirming in their intensity" AMERICANA UK
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9 Nether Edge Road,
Sheffield,
South Yorkshire,
England,
S7 1RU.
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