Daniel Brandt new album on Erased Tapes
Daniel Brandt
Announces new album, ‘Without Us’,
Out 21st March 2025 On Erased Tapes
Listen to first single “PNK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuzeygUe1CM
‘Without Us’ Live Multimedia Premier 24th April 2025
London, Barbican Hall TICKETS
Daniel Brandt
Announces new album, ‘Without Us’,
Out 21st March 2025 On Erased Tapes
Listen to first single “PNK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuzeygUe1CM
‘Without Us’ Live Multimedia Premier 24th April 2025
London, Barbican Hall TICKETS
Credit - Jono White (Hi-Res)
Daniel Brandt, of lauded German electroacoustic outfit Brandt Brauer Frick, leads the apocalyptic rave with his third solo album Without Us - a multimedia project that clashes head on with the spiralling chaos of our times, trying to make sense of the world as it unravels. It was the Joshua Tree in California where the record began to take shape against a mise-en-scene of staggering vistas and eerie quiet.
Brandt spent the week recording mostly percussion with barely anyone around, and that feeling of deserted landscapes and unspoiled natural beauty translated itself
throughout the rest of the process back at home in Hackney Wick, London and the studio in Neukölln, Berlin, where he completed the album. “I began writing this album in California in 2020. At the time, it was already meant to be a reflection about the slow, relentless disaster of the climate crisis.
The sad irony is that now, as the album nears its release, the very place where it began is burning. And the reason, of course, is climate change.” The kinetic energy that infuses the album, burning like fossil fuel, barely lets up: from the melted mellotron-like weirdness of the shuffling,
skittering mayhem of first single ‘PNK’: “For PNK, I recorded the ambient hum of Europe’s largest mall — a symphony of overconsumption, the endless current of goods and distractions. From this tide of waste and noise, the song emerged. It’s about breaking away, building something new, something brighter, from the ashes of what we’ve discarded.”
Brandt continues: “Without Us is about the helplessness of the individual in the climate crisis and the apparent need to take radical global action to change the trajectory of the current threat of a climate disaster. It’s about the despair and inability to be able to properly contribute to change as an individual, even though the general idea is that everybody can play their part. But this part that each individual is supposed to take responsibility for is so small compared to the scale of what is needed. The responsibility must not be with the individual when we’re suffering from decisions by global corporations aiming to get rich quick.”
To help us visualise, Brandt has even made a 20 minute film of the same name with Anthony Dickenson, shot in the searing heat of Athens in 2023, a microcosmic reflection of climate chaos, offering extreme solutions and a large helping of hyperbole.
Without Us the full project—album, film, and live performance—will premiere as an immersive experience at Barbican Hall in London on April 24th, 2025.
The event will combine live music, the film and an “apocalyptic rave” where we’ll be able to explore our collective anxieties in a multi-dimensional way.
It’s time to mobilise, and hope against hope that the Doomsday Clock knows how to move in an anti-clockwise direction
Tracklist
1.Paradise O.D.
2.Lucid
3.Addicted
4.Steady
5.Soft Rains
6.Resistance
7.PNK
8.Persistence
9.Nothing to Undo
Daniel Brandt Lives Dates
Fri Jan. 31- Brandt Brauer Frick - Baden-Baden, DE @ Festspielhaus
Fri Feb. 7 - Brandt Brauer Frick - Bielefeld, DE @ Rudolf-Oetker-Halle
Thu Apr. 24 - Daniel Brandt - London, UK @ Barbican Hall TICKETS HERE
