Jonny Dylan Hughes of BRANCHES Shares Solo Single "Devastation"
Published May 18, 2021 Western Canadian Renaissance man Jonny Dylan Hughes makes ambient music as BRANCHES and house beats as Slow Start. He's also occasionally himself. In his new single under his own name — the first since 2018 — Hughes embraces more of an electropop soundscape. The new Bandcamp release "Devastation" is five-plus minutes of shimmering synths and drum machines. The timely lyrics seem born of the COVID-19 era's tribulations: "Have you ever had your world collapse / Like the stress was charging you tax?" Lines about salting food even though he can't taste it (and not knowi...
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