Brandon Can't Dance

A homegrown hero of Philly's tight-knit D.I.Y. scene, Brandon Ayres released numerous digital-only albums of home-recorded lo-fi pop before signing a record deal and issuing his first "proper" album in 2017. Ayres grew up in the middle-class Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill and started making music at the age of 11 with his friend Josh Phillips in the duo Rasputin's Secret Police. He became involved in the D.I.Y. scene at age 16 after discovering Philly's experimental Faux Fetus Collective, which, he claimed, "changed my life." Using rudimentary gear, he began to write and r...