PRESS COVERAGE & REVIEWS

Brielle Brown Plants a Soulful Legacy with Album “In Art & Soil the Same

Brielle Brown isn’t just a songwriter, she’s a storyteller who carves deep into the dirt of human experience and gently brings out the light. With In Art & Soil the Same, her highly anticipated full-length debut, Brown cultivates something quietly seismic: a roots/folk record that doesn’t scream to be heard but instead invites you to listen. It’s tender, defiant, and beautifully honest. It feels like the kind of album that’s not just released—it’s lived in.

Named ‘Songwriter of the Year’ in New Jersey’s 27th Annual Makin Waves Awards

Jersey Shore singer-songwriter Brielle Brown’s latest and greatest album, In Art & Soil the Same, was written over the course of a 15-month long fellowship with The Witness Institute, which continues the work of Nobel laureate Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The Institute aims to activate and empower leaders to act with humility, reflection, and sensitivity, and, in turn, to influence their communities towards moral action.

THE AQUARIAN WEEKLY MAKIN WAVES AWARDS

Awarded 15 Month Moral Leadership
Fellowship with The Witness Institute

The Witness Institute Cohort 3 Fellows

The Well is Awarded 2021 Album of the Year by Indieshark Music Magazine

2021 - A Year in Review Indieshark Music Magazine

“She’s Come to Sing” Awarded Best Music Video at the Big Apple Film Festival, Fall Edition 2021

Big Apple Film Festival

“I think what Brown is trying to convey to her audience is that when all the fear subsides, when all the fighting has ended, it’s about love. The foundation of life and humanity must be love. It’s that simple – right? Brown makes you believe.”

Skope Magazine

“She embraces a melancholic harmony with a grace that nearly left me in tears the first time I listened to this record in its entirety. Brielle Brown is unlike any other singer/songwriter on the planet, and she really drives that home in her debut.”

Vents Magazine

“She communicates feelings of maternity, kinship with the earth, and the unending ties that bind the two together so remarkably well that she sounds like she was born to make this record.”

Indie Pulse Music Magazine

“A stunning concept EP that doesn’t live inside of its own ambitions too much, Brielle Brown’s The Well is a picture of ethereal femininity and daring millennial songcraft that couldn’t be arriving for a more appropriate summer than the one ahead of us this year.”

FAME Magazine

“She is constructing something unapologetically unguarded and naturally transcendent in her music. Her work in this record left me utterly spellbound upon receiving my pre-release copy just this week.”

"Voted Indie Shark Magazine 'Pick of the Week'

“This six song treasure is rooted in Brown’s philosophy that we never stop learning and growing, or learning to grow... Life, like Brown’s songs, are really about those gray areas between darkness and light – opportunities to cautiously celebrate and delight even when sorrow is in the wings waiting to overtake our senses.”

The JW Vibe

“I think our leading woman is able to establish herself as the intricacy-oriented player we need out of alternative folk-rock in 2021.”

The Hollywood Digest

“The Well is one of the most moving releases I’ve heard in the last five months by a longshot. Brown doesn’t just give us familiar poetic phrasings that could relate to mother earth and earthly alike in The Well, but instead chases unbelievably striking notions that break away from human parameters altogether, perhaps in search of some omnipotence that tethers all life together in art and soil the same.”

Too Much Love Magazine

“This isn’t just required listening for alternative music buffs right now; it’s a potential game-changer for the indie singer/songwriter circuit and the new era it will have the opportunity to overtake

Independent Music & Arts Inc

“A sonic confection of pure beauty, The Well oozes intimacy, conveying silky-smooth melodies gilded by the irresistible, pristine voice of Brielle Brown.”

Guitar Girl Magazine

“The Well from Brielle Brown is the most sincere and authentic records we’ve heard in quite some time.”

We Write About Music

“Brielle Brown has composed a stunning display of emotion both within her inventively vibrant lyricism and cinematic arrangement. “The Well” is an artful and vulnerable experience.”

Her Song Music Blog

“Gorgeously wrought, “Concrete Stars” conveys palpable emotion, centered in Brielle Brown’s heart.”

Guitar Girl Mag

“Concrete Stars” is a somber, solemn and reflective life meditation, with echoes of gospel, Americana folk and soul that nestles nicely alongside Emmylou Harris, Mavis Staples, Sarah McLachlan and John Hiatt. Producer Marc Swersky creates a spacious, moody Daniel Lanois-style production, respectfully allowing Brown’s sympathetic, tender vocals to shine as she tackles the complexities of life.

American Songwriter