Ears Wide Open: The King’s English
Kevin Bronson on
1
Derek Brambles and Eric Johnson know their way around a song – the duo have been paying some bills penning commercial music around L.A. for a while now. The new project that singer-guitarist Brambles and bassist-keyboardist-vocalist Johnson have with guitarist Nick Setter and drummer Ryan Silver is called the King’s English. And it’s simply an advertisement for a good time. The quartet’s musical cocktail includes some grooving, bouncy doo-wop mixed with tropical-flavored pop, with the light-hearted fare on the quartet’s new “Feel Me” EP (available on Bandcamp going down easy. The video for “Watercolors” was directed by Ianna Vasale and the band. And they have a song titled “Tecate and a Sun Tan,” because, you know, product placement never hurts.
||| Stream: “Mary Jane” and “Calypso”
[…] writers Derek Brambles and Eric Johnson launched their foray into dance-pop in 2014 as the King’s English, and now the duo is going next-level under the moniker Topanga. There’s nothing […]