Hey Exit

Hey Exit is more like a collection of music projects than a stable band.

It's been going since 2009, and encompasses a few different styles and disciplines, each of which has its own series, linked above.

Some of these are trains of thought that have spun off into their own bands, some are buckets for collecting certain kinds of compositions (or spellwork or whatever), some are distinguished by the unique role they play in my own life.

Thanks for reading and listening. Feel free to reach out if anything.

contact: hey@heyexit.com

video / edit: Matthew Sanchez

Deluge

Already Dead Tapes and Records, Jun 2020

songs by Brendan Landis, mostly 2018-2019

with
Norihiro Kikuta - synths at the end of Great Movement
David Drucker - guitar solo on Soak
Lenna Pierce - cello on Great Movement

thanks Josh & Druck & AD crew, Petra, Kid, Sev

cover photo by Amy Mills

Dear specters, I don't even believe
You are here, so how is it
You're making me comprehend
Things I would rather not know just yet?

- Charles Simic

You can buy the tape on bandcamp, or listen on spotify, tidal, or itunes.

recent press

"For how complex this is, it is not easily defined. That makes it feel mysterious to me, because when you have these sounds of bass and slide guitars, it feels like there should be some comparison out there to say, "Oh yeah it sounds like this and this mixed together," but I just haven't been able to place it. Anura is truly breaking new ground here."

— Raised By Cassettes review for Deluge

"As Anura, Brendan Landis, one-dude band (with some guests!), melancholies his way through a shimmery, dreamy album of wistful melodies and downtrodden tempos, falling somewhere between the American Analog Set and Galaxie 500, but with the twinkling lights of Mazzy Star."

— Cassette Gods review for Deluge

"These tracks speak like like sea glass, individual journeys through turbulent sediment. The final product can be held with both a sense of beauty and mystery. These selections flicker with radiance like stars behind a thin layer of fog, bright with an elusive warmth, always there yet nostalgically distant."

— Lost in a Sea of Sound review for Deluge

shows

No shows during quarantine, but I've been collecting old flyers from the before times.

Hey Exit logo illustrated by Nim Ben-Reuven. (Treatments by Brendan.)

Anura and Receive logos illustrated by Jackson Kovalchik.