BROOD22 unveils new EP “just past the exit with the truck stop”

Brood22 is a slowcore-slacker musician from the Northwest and has recently dropped a new EP called just past the exit with the truck stop. Released recently, this five-track album delves deep into self-imposed isolation and warring one’s way out of poisonous loop repetition.

Satisfying on Southern Arizona textures, Brood22 creates a musical landscape that’s intimate and heroic all at once. A large majority of its tracks proceed on a slow-developing, held-back trajectory that covers you in a hypnagogic haze. It’s music that doesn’t hurry, instead making you wait out a note and a lyric by a note and a lyric before you’re okay with it taking residence in your pores. Fuzzed-out chords and harmonic leads explode out almost as a relief, adding texture and rich emotion to a previously silent mood.

The EP is a story of identification-seeking and eliminating harmful bad habits. It’s a thoughtful EP, and its honesty and candour somehow makes you believe you can relate to it. Brood22’s sounds merge cold melancholy and moments of hard resilience, and it provides listeners a place to introspect on their own life choices.

just near the exit that can claim to have a truck stop is remarkable in its emphasis on mood and narrators as well as a lack of buzz or high-shine production. It’s a piece that’s real, slow, and gentle-hold. Slowcore stalwarts and anyone experiencing a piece that announces its presence once other noises have faded away will have a different experience here.