About Brennan Wedl's Brennan Wedl
The Minnesota-raised, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Brennan Wedl is announcing her self-titled album and ANTI- Records debut today, to be released August 21. Wedl was previously in the band Dazey & the Scouts, which garnered a dedicated following with their only LP ‘Maggot’. Now embarking on a solo music career, it is on the album’s first single “Pretty Little Fantasy” that Wedl declares a message of personal power and gender expression, disconnecting from the gaze of others to fully embrace herself.
A snarling rock song that is equal parts Hole and Sheryl Crow, Wedl mixes imagery of roses with bleeding teeth; a well-meaning daughter and a crawling creature. “I’m not a girl, I’m a freakazoid” she bellows before the open-armed release of a chorus announcing she’s “not everything you think you can see.” Prodding at societal perception, Wedl says the song is an ode to the murkiness of your twenties, and how fantasizing can allow us to be more honest with ourselves.