Kings Of The Brushwood Thicket: The Lies You Leave Behind (Self-Released)
Side project from Dog Society guitarist Bruce Erik Brauer releases excellent, contemplative debut set
Released Mar 17th, 2015 / By Erick Mertz

Nothing on The Lies You Leave Behind feels ends up feeling derivative. The songs are boldly fragile featuring delicate acoustic guitars and sorrow-drenched vocals. “Sweep Away” speaks to the end of a phase; echoed vocals on “He Was A Man” lends middle-class esteem a bittersweet temporality; death and its aching revelations makes up the core of “The Lies You Leave Behind”.
Brauer’s songwriting has a way of evoking significant emotions, one small rip and tear at a time. While The Lies You Leave Behind is an intensely personal record, drawn out of what is one man’s experience, there is a thread of universality tying together all these assembled songs. Follow where Brauer takes you and see where you arrive.
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