JOHN JOSEPH BRILL
Debut EP Pieces released this week via Killing Moon Records
Watch new music video ‘Pieces’ on YouTube
SOLD OUT London show at The Islington on February 25th
March tour dates announced with BC Camplight
Merseyside songwriter John Joseph Brill has revealed a stop-motion music video for his debut EP’s title track, ‘Pieces’.
Following the acclaim of 2014’s ‘Muscle & Bone’, the ‘Pieces’ video encapsulates the storyteller himself in thousands of individual photographs. “It’s a raw exploration of one man’s internal honesty,” John Joseph Brill explains. “There are no fancy frills or special effects, it’s completely DIY and as raw as the song is. It wears its blemishes as badges of honour.”
‘Pieces’ was written shortly after Brill left London doom-folk outfit Burning Beard, a time which saw him immersed in the West London folk hub populated by the likes of The Staves, Laura Marling and Bear’s Den. “It’s about an individual who starts off with such staunch principles – politically, morally, whatever, in a very idealistic sense – only to later betray those essentially for the sake of making money,” he reveals.
The Pieces EP sees John Joseph Brill empowered with a new-found ability to articulate things never previously said aloud, and features four beautifully crafted songs that are equally affecting as they are anthemic. Recorded with rising producer Kristofer Harris (Annie Eve, Smoke Fairies, Jay Brown, Bear’s Den, Story Books) and Andrew Davie (singer of Bears Den), the EP also features live favourite ‘Golden Kids’ and ghostly closer ‘Sleeping Beast’, as well as 2014’s powerful ‘Muscle & Bone’.
The EP is released digitally, worldwide, this week via Killing Moon Records. Purchase here and catch John Joseph Brill at his sold out launch show on February 25th at London’s The Islington, and at the dates below with BC Camplight in March.
EP Track listing
1. Pieces
2. Muscle & Bone
3. Golden Kids
4. Sleeping Beast
UK Tour dates
February
25th London, The Islington (EP launch) ***SOLD OUT***
27th Bath, The Boater
March Tour w/ BC Camplight
8th Bristol, Louisiana
9th Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
10th London, The Lexington
11th Liverpool, Leaf
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