Meet Me In Orbit are Bay Area duo Jared Brannan and Brandon Bews. The band formed in 2014 when the pair, then roommates, started releasing their self-produced music on Soundcloud.
Following a feature on the Tricycle Record’s annual compilation of up and coming artists from the Bay Area, Meet Me In Orbit were signed by NY indie label Sky Council Recordings. Radio coverage and numerous live appearances followed, with the duo taking quarantine as an opportunity to refine their sound and work on a new EP.
Slip Away represents the product of that time, and like a lot of art emerging now it feels like it not only comes from, but also reflects on, the experience of isolation resulting from COVID-19. Meet Me In Orbit explain:
“With Slip Away, we wanted to explore the claustrophobia of desperately yearning for something, but having no clear sense of what that thing is. It’s a song about the ways we tend to craft our inner-dialogue around autobiographies that are themselves constructed of little lies and self-deceptions. In the end, that’s what nostalgia itself is--the overwhelming desire to go back to a time and place that never really existed in the form we’re yearning for.”
The sound created of Slip Away blends modern electronic production with melodic pop and a dash of 80s New Romanticism. Meet Me In Orbit have created an appropriately otherworldly feel to the song — percussive melodic synths picking out rhythmic melodies beneath vocals with effects that enable them to embellish the emotion of the record. It’s a crisp, accessible and atmospheric record — check it out below.