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Artist
Taken By Name
12+ albums
funkyambientProgressiveelectronicindustrial rock
about
There are a lot of things wrong with the world right now. Brandon Green knows that. Until recently, the 21-year-old Boston-based songwriter-composer-producer-bassist wasn’t sure how to do anything about it. Brought up in the affluent suburbs of southern Connecticut, wrong was everywhere, but usually covered with a shiny facade. Taken By Name, as a result, is a musical exploration into what is real. Everything is given a name or label to represent itself, and it is up to the perceiver to truly finding meaning in it, or simply taking it for what it is. Each song or composition is part of a collective work to survey Brandon’s delving into what he feels, as well as how he fits in a constantly changing, perpetually wrong society. Brandon claims that his influences are “from Nine Inch Nails to Funkadelic to late-Romantic experimental classical music to what I see on the subway on the way to work.” A Taken By Name songs take root in Brandon’s life experiences; that quality makes the music real. The music is real, no matter the number of layers of noise Brandon places on the music. (Brandon maintains complete artistic control of the project and records all music himself in his Boston apartment.) The 80s-tinged “Dreamer” is a powerful confession of love and the fear of losing it; the droning, suspenseful “Switch On” analyzes the temptation of a monotonous, destructive lifestyle. All of the music culminates into the overriding concept of Taken By Name’s upcoming debut album, Kid Lig
