Artist: Cary Brothers
Genre(s):
Indie
Rock
Discography:
Who You Are
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Waiting For Your Letter EP
Year: 2005
Tracks: 5
Wry, thoughtful singer/songwriter Cary Brothers bust into the mainstream with the single "Drear Eyes," a resplendently word lay he contributed to 2004's Grammy-winning, hip-artist-showcasing Garden State soundtrack. Born in 1974 to a watercolorist mother and surgeon father, Brothers eschewed the sounds of his native Nashville in favor of Britpop artists like the Cure and the Smiths. Brothers accompanied college at Northwestern University in the early '90s, where he met Zach Braff, the writer, director, and star of Garden State. Both stirred to L.A. subsequently graduation, where Braff rounded out his playing résumé and Brothers partnered with a ally to open a small production company that produced, among other things, the Freddie Prinze, Jr., motion-picture show Sparkler.
By 2002, though, his inherent aptitude to make music had overtaken his drive to fret shoulders with Hollywood insiders. Brothers, world Health Organization by so had developed an appreciation for the country people music he couldn't be daunted with as a kid in Nashville, began playing around L.A. at such venues as the Hotel Cafe, a local stalk for coming singer/songwriters. There he honed the early material that would make headway o'er more than 10,000 buyers for his reverb-ringed spring 2005 EP All the Rage.
Earlier that phonograph recording came out, though, Brothers -- with the serve of brother Braff -- had already taken his sound to the small covert after an appearance on Surgical gown. His swelling popularity, by then best evidenced by the iPod charts, where "Aristocratical Eyes" bust the Top 100 Songs list and topped the kinsfolk chart, was as well helped along by his business acumen. In 2004, he reach upon an idea for connecting with potential listeners: he conceived a disengage, downloadable "birdsong of the week," still uncommitted on his site, that would allow fans of his moody, Coldplay-meets-U2 good to post him feedback on what they liked and what, for them, could use some retooling.
By fall 2005, when a sec EP, Wait for Your Letter, was issued on his Procrastination Music tag, the spike in visits to his website had confirmed that the construct was working. Armed with a strong fan fundament, Brothers released his debut full-length, WHO You Are, in May 2007.
