Lydia Brambila
Athens, Georgia, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | SELF
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(Independent Release) As a member of the local psychedelic surf-rock group Outersea, Lydia Brambila lets her guitar do the talking, providing a steady, rumbling counterweight to bandmate Kris Deason’s jittery riffs. On her new solo record, Brambila leads with her own voice, delivering eight sparse, dreamy “songs about trees, water, fauns and flight” that explore celestial realms while remaining tethered to folk tradition.
Brambila’s earthy fingerpicking on Migraineur suggests an affinity for a certain monastic breed of singer-songwriter from the 1960s and ’70s. Yet the album’s sense of melody and structure lends it a modern clarity, creating a hybrid approach that should appeal to fans of soft-psych explorers like Samara Lubelski.
Drenched in reverb, Brambila’s singing is the record’s sparkling centerpiece, while her lyrics resonate in unexpected ways given our current cultural reality. On the spectral mid-album gem “Cloister,” the songwriter navigates the concept of woman as mystic and martyr, as a chaotic universe’s moral guiding force. - Flagpole Magazine
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Lydia Brambila - Migraineur
https://www.discogs.com/Lydia-Brambila-Migraineur/release/12587948
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Lydia Brambila is a singer-songwriter based in Athens, Georgia. Her debut album Migraineur is a sparse collection of songs about monastic figures, natural phenomena, and the impact of music on migraine: "To know that singing could feel like healing was revelatory. I wanted to make an album that reflected what that feels like: hiding in the dark, feeling powerless and alone, and still being able to find lasting and beautiful things in that space." She plans to release her second album in 2019, The Eternal Machine.
In live performances of her songs, Lydia explores the topics of labor, vulnerability, and healing in art. In her published work, she analyzes the interplay of migraine, lyricism, journaling, and poetry through a critical Deleuzoguattarian framework of illness, art, and thinking.
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