Hey Exit

Hey Exit was <a href="spotify:artist:2GR3f7gAz85tdVxRNULzaI" data-name="Brendan Landis">Brendan Landis</a>&#39; (<a href="spotify:artist:4AgJmiFlddeh05VlXuObLy" data-name="Receive">Receive</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:04aHQrY7Nm4o98j5KG9NS1" data-name="Star Card">Star Card</a>, Receiver, <a href="spotify:artist:1UDwKFo7rFBQIqCAgI5Cw7" data-name="Anura">Anura</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0yPf7mFupca6qddQCORWBT" data-name="Advection">Advection</a>) primary musical project from 2009 - 2021. Over this time the project covered quite a lot of ground, working in several musical traditions and drawing from many different styles within each:

- art music &amp; long-form instrumentals (new age doom, electroacoustic composition, free improvisation, prepared guitar, plunderphonics)
- heavy music &amp; non-music (harsh noise, industrial, grindcore)
- songwriting &amp; short-form instrumentals (downer pop, airs for solo instruments or small ensembles)

Despite this restless approach to style and tradition, there are several throughlines in the work: music as spiritual practice, contrasting extremes presented as necessary opposites, and the dilemma of making space for hope and horror in equal measure.

After nearly fifty releases and one or two hundred shows, the Hey Exit project is retired for the foreseeable future. However, Brendan remains active in a number of other bands and projects:

- Writing &amp; singing heavy art-rock tunes for <a href="spotify:artist:4AgJmiFlddeh05VlXuObLy" data-name="Receive">Receive</a>.
- Playing drums in <a href="spotify:artist:04aHQrY7Nm4o98j5KG9NS1" data-name="Star Card">Star Card</a>.
- Co-writing downer pop tunes for Receiver.
- Writing electronic music as <a href="spotify:artist:0yPf7mFupca6qddQCORWBT" data-name="Advection">Advection</a>.
- Writing solo downer-pop-meets-electronics tunes as <a href="spotify:artist:1UDwKFo7rFBQIqCAgI5Cw7" data-name="Anura">Anura</a>.