Hard Labor
Factory Brains- I'm No Good
- Down the River
- Coffee Break
- Modern Day
- Now I Know
- Friends Are Friends
- Fork in the Road
- Arty Minds
- Machinery
- Do It Again
- Awful Place to Be
The Stockholm based band Factory Brains has in spite of their young age already made over 100 concerts. 100 concerts that has taken the band from the youth recreation centers, via blues festivals in small city Ängelsberg, to Stockholm for a gig with Graveyard, on to Gotheburg for an evening with Daniel Norgren and finally on tour as supporting act to Rival Sons – a Rival Sons who specifically requested the band as supporting act.
Factory Brains was founded in 2010 and had on their first album (Love like hours/Universal Records) close cooperation with Peo Berghagen who passed away way too early. The band created a reputation of being one of Sweden´s up and coming and most interesting rock bands, but without Peo things didn´t go as planned and Factory Brains days at Universal were numbered before they even began. For three 17 year old guys – who thought they´d signed off on guaranteed fame and success – this could have been the beginning of the end for the band. But instead of being disheartened the band called Janne Hansson and booked a session in Atlantis Studios to be able to start working on their second album Hard Labor. In order to perfect the recording with something a little extra they brought in Martin Hederos (TSOOL) and Henrik Wind to play keyboards and Chips Kiesbye (The Hellacopters, Michael Monroe, Millencollin) was called to produce all vocals. After finishing the recording the task of mixing a mastering was assigned to – in that regard a somewhat odd choice – Jens Borggren (Opeth/Paradise Lost). Choosing Jens to complete this task is something the band definitely don´t regret which the audience will be aware of when listening through Hard Labor.
So, what does Factory Brains have to offer us music consumers in the year 2016? To make it less dramatic one could say “basically nothing new”. Although the band´s upcoming album has an expression, a sound, a variety and a certainty which to most bands is a rare luxury. The band´s emotional cocktail of rock, americana, blues & soul makes it impossible not to surrender to Factory Brains heavy and rich music.
Hard Labor (Wild Kingdom Records/Sound Pollution) will be released at the end of February – is it the new Rival Sons? Black Keys? Band Of Horses? Wilco? Tom Waits? Rolling Stones?
We can also announce that Factory Brains will go on a comprehensive spring tour together with Graveyard.