After almost eighteen years of deceptive silence, Brazen is back with Distance, an ambitious indie-rock epic where melancholic modulations and vocal harmonies intertwine on a soaring instrumental carpet. The eight tracks that make up the album are characterised by refined songwriting, carried by an epic breath that makes each track a journey in its own right. Composed, arranged and recorded remotely between London and Geneva over the course of almost a decade, the album is as musically polished as it is rich in narrative twists. The meticulous care taken in its conception gives it a timeless character that in no way detracts from its emotional intensity.

“Arms Of The Sea“, the album’s first single, is a kind of epic protest song denouncing indifference to the tragic fate of the thousands of people who have drowned in the Mediterranean, victims of the closure and militarisation of Europe’s southern borders. “Did you think they could learn to fly? Well, it does seem we’ve lost all mankind, in the arms of the sea…”. In ‘Holocene Dies‘, the question of humanity’s future on this planet is raised, against a melancholy backdrop: “Is there a chance we wake? Before we turn to flames and millions die?” But the album ends on an optimistic note, driven by an upbeat tempo and a heady guitar melody: “Don’t mourn, organize. It’s time to occupy. Or so we say: we’ll make a change to this shit, if we are side by side” (“Bizarre Tragic Hollow Times”).