For listeners of King Krule, Duster and Salvia Palth, bram bancroft is a DIY, multi-instrumentalist from Nottingham, United Kingdom. The relaxed and melancholic combination of guitar music, samples, cello, piano, glockenspiel and softly-spoken vocals, creates ‘an interesting take on slowcore…leaving the listener with a floating feeling as they’re listening to the song’ (Kelsie Herzog).
With three singles released so far since March 2022, all of which accompanied with a variety of stylised music videos, the next single release ‘lordly ones’ will be released ahead of the debut album ‘thoughts of an empty room’, which will be released later in the year. All recording, production, filmography and photography has been produced by the works of just two people, including bram, thus showing the true DIY commitment to the project.
thoughts of an empty room
thoughts of an empty room
This is the debut album from bram bancroft, the album explores topics of the objectification of women (joan), life and death (pass out of the world and you won't feel a thing) , humanity and empathy (LATV), love (el verano), solitude (howling at the moon) existentialism (lordly ones) and mental health (bed bugs). With the instrumentation of classic indie, guitar music with additions of cello, tape loops, distorted pianos and softly spoken word vocals to create a unique sound blending slowcore, soft rock, lo-fi, classical and experimental music.
For listeners of King Krule, Duster and Salvia Palth, bram bancroft is a DIY, multi-instrumentalist from Nottingham, United Kingdom. The relaxed and melancholic combination of guitar music, samples, cello, piano, glockenspiel and softly-spoken vocals, creates ‘an interesting take on slowcore…leaving the listener with a floating feeling as they’re listening to the song’ (Kelsie Herzog).
With three singles released so far since March 2022, all of which accompanied with a variety of stylised music videos, the next single release ‘lordly ones’ will be released ahead of the debut album ‘thoughts of an empty room’, which will be released later in the year. All recording, production, filmography and photography has been produced by the works of just two people, including bram, thus showing the true DIY commitment to the project.
‘lordly ones’ is the latest single by bram bancroft. Accompanied by a video, the song takes you on a journey of the existential ramblings of a lost human. ‘I’ve lived a long life for a fruit fly’, being the main lyrical hook within the song amplifies the different perspectives of life (and death) across the world, and how insignificant it all is when trying to see the bigger picture. This leads to a two and a half minute instrumental outro of carefully composed cello lines combined with distorted laughter to truly express this feeling of existential dread.
