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Busy Edmonton-based beatmaker Jonny Dylan Hughes released an album with his project BRANCHES early this year, and now he's released another,...

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...

BRANCHES Returns with Cosmic New Single "Keep Going" Hear the latest from Jonny Dylan Hughes Published Jan 05, 2021Jonny Dylan Hughes has been releasing music under his own name in recent years, but now the Western Canadian polymath — currently based in Edmonton — has revived his project BRANCHES for a new video. "Keep Going" is a celestial electronic track, its droning bed of pillowy synth tones given a sense of forward momentum by a bloopy beat. In the final third of the track, the arrangement drifts off into the cosmos with brassy chords and burbling arpeggiators. The whole thing is s...