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"Simplify represents me finding a clarity I have been searching for for years," says critically acclaimed piano-based singer-songwriter BRENDAN JAMES of his new album Simplify. James is a man who sings with conviction and isn't afraid to speak out, as is evidenced on his new album, Simplify. For example, the plaintive ballad "The New Plan" tackles our violence-obsessed culture unflinchingly. "It's no secret that this country has an unhealthy obsessions with guns," he explains. "I wrote this song as a conversation piece, begging for an end to violence for the sake of violence. It's in our culture, and it's starting to 'backfire'. We're beginning to look ridiculous on the world stage, and I care enough to address it. Very few civilians I know NEED guns. They simply choose to have them around." Tackling his personal history as a child of divorce, he wrote the song "He Loved", which actually had origins in the divorce of his musical heroes, Carly Simon and James Taylor. It took him a few years to be confident enough as a songwriter to release it, and the song appears on Simplify. "Back then, I think Carly saw in me the ability to be a mature and credible songwriter, but I wasn't that guy until now. I finally grew to be the songwriter she believed me to be," James confides.The album's title track and first single is a melodically driving jam that American Songwriter calls "a piano-fueled pop/rocker that feels like a mission statement for the entire record." "The process of evolution, especially technological evolution, is occurring at such blinding speeds these days that we must take collective moments to breathe together, find calm together," Brendan explains of the song, "or we will forever leave behind our real essence as animals in paradise."
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TRACK LISTINGS
1. Windblown;
2. Simplify;
3. The Skeptic;
4. Ignorant Man;
5. Hillary;
6. Constellations;
7. He Loved;
8. The Good in You;
9. Where You Started;
10. The New Plan;
11. Letter of Apology;
12. Tied To You
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