A Calming Dose

Brijean “Take A Trip”

Brijean’s music always sounds like paradise. It sounds like a world where the temperature is perfect, the light is just right, there’s lovely flora all over, there’s amazing food and drinks and everyone is either dancing or just kinda grooving. It’s a place you can immediately envision upon hearing a song like “Take A Trip,” and it’s something that can and does exist but it’s also something that mostly lives in the imagination. Pretty much every Brijean song feels this way, it’s like they’re gradually building out an alternate world they can live in when playing and recording this music. It’s an act of escapism that’s also something that also generously serves as escapist art for everyone who listens. Knowing that this particular record was made during a spell of serious loss and grief for the band only makes it more powerful and poignant. In a harsh and hostile world, they created their own beautiful mind palace to retreat to.

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