Brightly

Brightly is Charlie Gleason, a musician, programmer and computer science dropout. Threading together folk, electronica, and surreptitious recordings of children screaming in airplanes, he began to construct what would become the debut album Beginnings & Endings from the safety of his bedroom. Armed with his rampant enthusiasm for the internets he b... uilt Tweetflight , an interactive Twitter-powered music video for Preflight Nerves, which won a bunch of awards, got a half million views and was featured by Google . Nicholas Lam, guitarist, and Joshua Barber, drummer, joined in 2012 and everything was great. After touring relentlessly throughout 2013, they released The Greylings EP , a collection of stripped-back and decidedly unelectronic tracks. And then Charlie relocated to London, England. Splitting their time between the two countries, they wrote and recorded their sophmore record Oh, Infinity , released 2015, before parting waysbecause England is really far away. Once again alone in a bedroom, during a long winter in Reykjavk, Iceland, Charlie wrote his most personal record yet, the crowdfunded LP One For Sorrow, Two For Joy. It was released digitally via Bandcamp , iTunes , and streaming services on June 17th, 2016.Read More