Sometimes with a particular track or even album you can tell as you listen that it was probably written at about three in the morning during a particularly restless night. Anna Lena Bruland, aka EERA, has been on the radar for a while now, and for most of that time she’s been crafting her debut album. According to reports from those involved, it’s a very personal piece with tracks Bruland’s journey towards better understanding herself. Her music lands somewhere between My Bloody Valentine and Mogwai, but all from the mind, hands and mouth of a singular soul.
Two tracks have been released thus far, and Living is the latest. It starts out with a rising, wailing guitar as Bruland layers desperate, pleading lyrics over the top. It’s not an optimistic piece of music, but it’s potent. According to Bruland herself, it’s “an apology directed to one of my best friends, for a time in my life when I was dealing with a lot of stuff and putting a lot of it on him”. Certainly, you feel that emotion in the way the song keeps rising and gaining layers up until the final seconds.
It’s fitting that Bruland is about to embark on an extended tour of the UK alongside Ghostpoet, the two of them share an aptitude for twinning deeply personal lyrics with careful, considered instrumentation. Their collaborative track, Dopamine If I Do, is far and away one of the strongest entries in Ghostpoet’s catalogue. EERA’s debut album, Reflection of Youth, will be out on the 3rd of November.
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