Brayden Bell is an indie-folk producer/songwriter with ballroom gravitas and campfire-folk relatability. His considerate songwriting pulls truth in detail from the luminosity of everyday emotional directives, like dandelions growing through the sidewalk. The Canadian’s soaring falsetto brings a sensitivity to a contemporary midwest-emo phrasebook, a Hozier filmstock captured through a Julien Baker lens. 

His song, “Good Company,” is a note to self, to always remember to take the time to call loved ones, or to send a message to old friends. We’re all constantly filling up the spaces with tasks and to-dos and feeling guilty for when we’re not working on them. Brayden wanted a song that could remind us that it’s okay to take a night off everyone once in a while and stretch out some time with our favorite people.

To drive the sentiment of “Good Company” home, Brayden invited his friends to record vocals and send it to him to add a choir of actual good company to the song. “To me it feels like there’s almost a bit of alt country influence in this one,” says Brayden. “It could be the Zach Bryans, and Noah Kahans rubbing off on me, as well as [my guitarist] Andrew Jones coming in with such energetic guitar melodies.”