The Brevet Website | Facebook | Instagram One listen and it’s
immediately clear that The Brevet have undergone a dramatic evolution
on their explosive, ambitious new album, LEGS. Synthesizing the
raucous energy of their live show with sonic precision of their
extensive studio history, the collection is the California
four-piece’s most deeply personal and lyrically sophisticated yet,
tackling perception and identity in the digital age with both subtle
nuance and blunt force. The songs remain as cinematic as ever, full of
rousing choruses and sing-along hooks, but they carry more weight
here, propelled inexorably forward by thunderous percussion and
blazing electric guitars that blend rock and roll snarl with R&B
swagger. The Brevet’s roots stretch back to college, when frontman
Aric Chase Damm first began writing scores for student films and
discovered he had a knack for crafting the kind of evocative music
that yields unforgettable on-screen moments. Those early songs led to
a licensing deal, and tracks from the band’s two independent albums
(2013’s Battle of the Heart and 2017’s American Novel) would go on
to be featured in a wide variety of films and television shows in
addition to racking up more than nine million streams on Spotify. With
all of The Brevet’s success on-screen and online, the group—Damm,
drummer David Aguiar, guitarist John Kingsley, and bassist Julian
Johnson—was more than ready to get out of the studio and onto the
stage. Over the course of the last year, they hit the road for the
most intense touring of their career, performing a slew of headline
shows alongside support dates with Magic Giant and festival
appearances from BottleRock to Firefly. Recorded at the band’s own
studio in their native Orange County, California, LEGS insists on a
relentless optimism, a defiant belief in the power of positivity in
the face of darkness and doubt. The album’s title actually stands
for “Like Every Great Story,” and the record indeed contains all
the elements of any memorable tale: struggle and success, tension and
release, conflict and resolution. Every great story has a hero, after
all, and heroes never give up, even when the going gets tough.
That’s what The Brevet is all about.
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