The early birthing pains of O’ Brother saw Michael Martens, Johnny Dang, an… Read Full Bio ↴The early birthing pains of O’ Brother saw Michael Martens, Johnny Dang, and his brother Anton Dang joined in making quiet climbs from graceful notes , a struck pose to an older guitar focused indie-rock. But as is the duty of all freshman bands members fade off and new friends, like Tanner Merritt and Aaron Wamack, joined establishing a new vision, and accidentally stumbling into the dark 2009 debut EP The Death of Day.

“The music we like to put together is dark, but so is the subject matter, so the medium has to be as well,” O’ Brother’s lead singer/guitarist Tanner Merritt spells out the capturing of the Georgia band’s first five written songs.

To break the cimmerian shade of an album based around sleep and its emboss to the natural world a dynamic had to be created, a wall of density given breathe and firm grip around melodies unable to wander. The expected sprawl of soft, then loud, then back to soft was sacrificed projecting a new luminance where the strength was in the tiny twisting light that exhales from the EP as a whole.

The band sought to keep their on stage essence by laying the album down live, forgoing the studio temptation to fill each space. Recorded by Brad Fisher with assistance from Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull the best takes were chosen for keys and effects to be added in later creating the soundscapes tucked beneath each song.

Since the 2009 release the band has shared stages with Thrice, Circa Survive, Manchester Orchestra, Biffy Clyro. Ready to record again the band is in a new dawn; where the sun is rising and a new eclectic output is being embraced.

“I think we are enjoying the writing of our full length more than we did with the EP,” Martens explains the bands next step. “It is more of a shared experience with this one because everyone is writing. The music is coming out better than ever and we are really happy to be coming into our sound.”

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O'Brother Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by O'Brother:

Absence There's a wickedness that's in my blood The precognition of…
Ascension We sat in silence, I spoke of leaving And from the…
Bear In bed your body burns just like a fire. And…
Black Tide I was swallowed in a black tide Living in…
Bloodlines I wanna see what you are And just wanna watch you…
Cleanse Me This is a ploy of cold, crass, sheep. To only…
Come Into the Divide Come gather inside and pour yourself some wine Drink to…
Complicated End Times You can try and measure what I do By the sweat…
Context I think you read out of context. Desecrating all the words…

Disillusion All I have return to me The quiet little symphony Of…
Division Of Man Your head, scented of blood, it's blurring your eyes As…
Easy Talk Are you speaking at all? Or are you keeping your…
Killing Spree you’re an evening breeze ripping through my leaves like a k…
Last Breath Lingering in your garden here our tired hands are bound To…
Lay Down Live, learn, and let it lie. Skip to the end…
Leave Me Out breathe out, try harder now to breathe out its pulling harde…
Lo Lo, my eager eyes will know the truth come the…
Locus i woke up in the in between And My head expands muttering…
Machines Part I Is this what you wanted? Eat, breed, repeat. Populate and…
Machines Part II I’ll lay all my anger aside And let all my instincts…
Malum How great is my debt that my penance should be…
Oblivion Caught inside of this nightmare I find There is only…
Oh Charitable Thief Slip in this certain knot of peace I'm keeping silent, keepi…
Only Other I’ve got nothing left all this is fragmentary seasons we for…
Parasitical I guess this life is better than no life You can't…
Path of Folly So did you care to speak your mind cause I'd…
Perilous Love Take what you want Leave me broken, leave me estranged Jus…
Poison! I’ll hold my tongue from idle speech to keep my…
Providence My eyes open up A sea of faces without names fills…
Radiance Was my radiance killed By the growing divide That logic i…
Slipping you’re a place i cannot leave a space i cannot see…
Soma I was hoping you’d open the door Eyes wide open, laid…
Spill On The Carpet I over reacted, it’s a spill on the carpet i missed…
Sputnik So what is the worth in that dirt that you…
The Great Release A slip of tongue, these words fall like an avalanche…
Transcience This is the process elimination That I am soon to rediscove…
What We've Lost Lately I guess i’m not my best can’t help feeling theres som…

You and I You and I, we’re not that much better…

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