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

picture / 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

"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

"Big, brawny, hooky songs with 20-ton riffs and choruses as sweet as candy make this one of the month's strongest rock albums."

— Bandcamp New & Notable review for Deluge EP

"Arm's Reach (Else 3) is a record of extreme depth. Lovecraft and King created whole mythologies for their worlds, histories and stories that bring them to life. But there are no stories on this record. Instead Landis and Kikuta have plumbed modern technology's potential to find the ancient sounds of geography. This is the sound of landscapes being shaped, of a place that is still becoming a place, that's not even at home in itself."

— All About Jazz review for Arm's Reach (Else 3)

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.