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- Jon Brion once quipped to the New York Times Magazine. It was 2003, and he was wrapping work on Fiona Apple ’s as-yet unnamed third record. Once that was complete, he told the interviewer, he would focus on his own music. A couple years prior, he had self-released his solo debut, Meaningless.
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Jan 3, 2024 · The album featured his unshowy mastery of vintage instruments and a compositional sense indebted to the legendary singer/songwriters of ’70s Los Angeles: the exact qualities that had made...
- Brad Shoup
Jan 26, 2021 · When Brion first flirted with the idea of making his own album he was in his late thirties and already deep into his musical career.
- Brenna Ehrlich
Brion was signed to the Lava/Atlantic label in 1997, but was released from his contract after turning in his solo debut album Meaningless; the album was released independently in 2001. In 2022, the album was remastered and re-released through Jealous Butcher Records, with Brion's approval.
But the scope of his vision, and of his budding partnership with Brion, became clear only Friday, with the posthumous release of a new album and counterpart to “Swimming” called “Circles.”
Jan 21, 2020 · Two years ago, Brion met the rapper Mac Miller, who had been in the process of writing and recording material for the albums that would become 2018’s Swimming and last week’s follow-up ...
- Music Critic
Oct 22, 2022 · His lone solo album, Meaningless, was released to a warm reception from fans in 2001, but didn’t find the same audience that Brion helped other artists reach.
Feb 25, 2020 · Brion had never worked with a rapper in his life. At the time, he had recorded a power-pop solo album, produced artists like Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann and scored the Paul Thomas Anderson films Hard Eight, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love.
