Gatlin is really cool and her most recent EP, To Remind Me Of Home is a truly terrific selection of songs, not least the track Sugarcoated, co-written by the inimitable Henry Brill. The EP is out RIGHT NOW and demands your attention immediately.
Read MoreOwen Lewis Vs Henry Brill Vs Alex McArtor
Not a lot to say about the fabulous Ms McArtor that we haven’t already said, but finally her full EP, Welcome To The Wasteland, is out in the world. It’s six fantastic tracks of elegant, Americana and indie tinged pop and we can’t recommend it enough. The whole thing was co-written and produced by Owen Lewis & Henry Brill, and mixed by Owen too.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs Joy Oladokun
Joy Oladokun’s third record, In Defense of My Own Happiness, is out today on Republic Records and it’s a total triumph. What’s more, we’re very pleased that Joy’s chosen to include a song she wrote a little while ago with our very own Henry Brill on the LP. It’s called Let It Be Me and it’s a little bit heartbreaking, a little bit tender and lyrically and musically stupendous. Do yourself a favour today and go and check out the whole record.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs DePresno
This is a big one - today sees the release of the new album from our incredibly talented pal, DePresno - out today via Sony Music Norway. I’m a bit hungover and thinking of how much I love this album and how proud I am that Henry Brill has co-written it with dePresno and Askjell is making me come over all emotional. It’s a beautiful set of stories and songs and I implore you to get involved with the album as soon as possible.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs The End of John Joseph Brill
We deal primarily in behind the scenes talent round here, so it’s not often I get to talk about gigs. I am, however, able to say with a mixture of delight and sadness that our boy Henry Brill will be performing for the final time under his John Joseph Brill moniker. He’s doing two nights in Nashville - one this evening (the 30th April) which is fully sold out, and one tomorrow (1st May), which has a couple of tickets week. It’s at a secret location and I am beyond gutted than I’m not able to be there. Goddamn pandemic.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs dePresno
I’m just beyond excited for the world to hear this record… Another track from dePresno’s upcoming album Places, co-written by Henry Brill, alongside dePresno and Askjell. It’s lovely.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs Owen Lewis Vs Alex McArtor
So, somewhere in the region of eighteen months ago, I woke up to a barrage of texts from Henry Brill, telling me about this artist he’s seen playing in a club in Nashville that evening. I wish I could find the conversation, as the messages were basically a compendium of the most superlative superlatives going and it’s quite the way to start your day waking up to that level of positivity from a drunk, hairy man 4000 miles away.
Read MoreOwen Lewis Vs Henry Brill Vs Old Sea Brigade
More music from Old Sea Brigade’s upcoming sophomore LP, Motivational Speaking, produced and mixed by Owen Lewis. Nothing Clever, which was also co-written by our very own Henry Brill, is out right now on Nettwerk.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs Chris Kläfford
Chris Kläfford won Swedish Idol. Chris Kläfford got through to the semi finals of America’s Got Talent. Chris Kläfford has a mega voice and great songs, and it’s always a delight when he and Henry Brill write together.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs dePresno
I really, really like a lot of Nordic music, but there are still few Nordic artists that I like as much as Bergen’s Bjarte dePresno Borthen, AKA dePresno, so I was delighted when he and Henry Brill hit it off at a writing camp a few years ago (writing the tremendous Too Fucked Up To Love You on the day they met). I was even more delighted when Bjarte visited Nashville (along with collaborator and producer, Askjell) to write a record with Henry.
Read MoreSimon Byrt Vs Marie Naffah
Marie Naffah’s voice is really special, and we’re delighted that she’s been in the studio with our own Simon Byrt.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs Jack Garratt
Jack Garratt’s long awaited second album is the gift that keeps on giving. This time we lucky people are getting Volume 6 of the record, a collection of acoustic interpretations of 6 tracks from the album.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs Owen Lewis Vs Old Sea Brigade
Yet another great track from Messrs Brill, Lewis and Cramer. This time it’s the second single from Old Sea Brigade’s second record, Motivational Speaking. Day by Day was co-written by Henry Brill and was mixed and co-produced by Owen Lewis.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs dePresno
In Autumn 2019, when no-one knew what a coronavirus was, Norwegian wunderkind dePresno decamped to Nashville with his producer Askjell (Sigrid, Aurora, Naaz) to write an album with our boy Henry Brill. The trio first met on a writing camp in Bergen, Norway, earlier that year.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs Tyler Shaw
When You’re Home is the new single from platinum-selling Canadian singer and actor, Tyler Shaw. The “gorgeously written ballad” (Parade’s words, not ours) was co-written by our very own Henry Brill, alongside Alex Beitzke (JC Stewart & James Arthur) and Tyler himself.
Read MoreHenry Brill Vs Rhys Lewis Vs Grey’s Anatomy
I love music and I love telly. I also love cooking, reading and red wine but that’s not really relevant to this post.
What is relevant is that the most fantastic song, Lonely Place by Rhys Lewis, taken from his debut record, Things I Chose To Remember, was chosen to soundtrack ABC’s trailer for Grey’s Anatomy this week.
Read MoreOwen Lewis Vs Henry Brill Vs Old Sea Brigade
Read MoreFriends Vs Music double header on this one.
How It Works is the first single from Old Sea Brigade’s sophomore album, out on Nettwerk next spring. Henry Brill co-wrote the song with OSB and Owen Lewis produced and mixed it (as well as the rest of the album). I’m lucky enough to have heard it and it is MEGA. And this single has a video with a cowboy in it, which is always something I can get behind.
Henry Brill Vs Luke Sital-Singh
Read MoreHenry co-wrote this with Luke track during a trip we both took to Los Angeles back in the heady days of summer 2019, before the planet went to shit. I remember it clearly, as we all went out and put in a pretty impressive pub quiz performance afterwards. California Blue is another sad boy banger from Mr Sital-Singh.
Henry Brill Vs Oklou
Oklou is the performing moniker of French producer, songwriter and vocalist Marylou Mayniel. Recently signed to the newly formed TaP Records, she makes visceral and thoroughly modern (even futuristic) pop for fans of Charli XCX, A.G. Cook and Shygirl.
Read MoreOwen Lewis & Henry Brill Vs Thunder Lily
Thunder Lily is the brainchild of Nashville-based synth-wunderkind Steven Mullan; a musical headtrip for fans of Talking Heads, the Flaming Lips and classic science fiction. Steven’s prodigious musical output has seen five singles and an EP released this year.
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