Do you think your visuals are as important as the music side of things? There’s a strong visual presence to everything you do, with your art and videos in particular looking super innovative and vivid. Louis, unrequited love, triumph, loneliness, happiness, sadness and where I am at right now. He really pushed me to explore that side of my production more and focus on a solo project.Ĭould you explain to me what All I Ever Wanted is about? I sent him “Piano Prelude” and “Gold Teeth” around a year ago. Nok is the one who got me really to do this solo stuff. I DM’d him saying I loved his stuff and sent over some tracks.
I had heard Kevin Abstract’s songs a while ago and after releasing “Little Bando” he followed me on Twitter. He did two insane features for the album which I am very eager to share. We sent some tracks back and forth and he recently released “ Still Cold,” which I produced for him.
I listened to his stuff and I was blown away. Night first messaged me asking me to produce a track for his mixtape ‘Concept Vague’ but I did not see the message in time :(. How did you link up with Nok from the Future, Night Lovell, and Kevin Abstract? I have been recording vocals ever since high school, but I never took it too seriously and mainly focused on producing other artists. When did you start recording your own vocals for your beats? I think the turning point was after I made “Piano Prelude.” That was when the sound really came to fruition. Your production techniques have evolved considerably over the years, but what would you attribute this to? Was there a turning point? All I Ever Wanted is trying to be honest, and say things that are I actually feel about things that I am actually going through. All I Ever Wanted is not so much a “Lil Bando” album but a Dylan Brady album. I kept a few songs but pretty much remade the whole thing. I originally had an entire album made under the name “Lil Bando” called Party At My Château, but I wasn’t satisfied with it.
What inspired the creation of All I Ever Wanted? 2” and “314” treating their respective features as guests of honor. He’s not afraid to step back here and there, with tracks like “Unknown Caller Pt. Bringing along a few friends into his fantastical world in the process, All I Ever Wanted doesn’t just paint Dylan as a multi-faceted producer and vocalist, but as an impressive show-runner, too. Taking a few norms and doing what he pleases with them, Dylan subverts any semblance of familiarity into a sound wholly his own. Changing the world is too lofty a goal anyway, but setting the internet aflame isn’t that far-fetched for some young artists.ĭylan Brady seems like he’s planning a sneak attack on the internet with his debut album, All I Ever Wanted. It’s doesn’t exactly spell out viral success immediately or sink its way in from the get-go, but as it progresses it slowly reveals more and more of Dylan as an artist. The first two tracks make it clear that he’s talented, but by the time “Little Bando” rolls around, All I Ever Wanted evolves from a neat selection of tracks from a promising internet curiosity to one of the freshest sounding debuts in recent memory. Music will always be the most important part of being a musician, that goes without saying, but as the internet becomes oversaturated with countless other forms of media and artists, you can’t just put up a song expecting it to change the world.
To be an artist in the digital age, you sort of need the whole package.