Brooks John Martin’s latest single “Straight Over Me” is a highlight track featured on his newly released self-titled album.

This is a haunting, slow-burning song that feels like drifting into the unknown. It wraps brooding intensity in lush strings, hypnotic guitar lines and Martin’s signature melancholic baritone which evokes an eerie yet cinematic atmosphere.

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“Straight Over Me” has a steady and deliberate rhythm like waes that crash in slow motion, relentless and inevitable. Martin’s vocals are introspective and heavy with emotion. There is the deep sense of something unsaid, something unresolved.

“It’s one of the darkest songs on the album, but I still haven’t figured out what it’s about,” Martin admits, reflecting his stream of consciousness writing style.

The abstract writing style creates space for interpreation – like reading an old letter with half of the words smudged away by the time. The orchestration swells in all of the right places, letting the music speak where words might fail.

Fans of The National, Nick Cave and late-era David Bowie will find themselves right at home in its moody, immersive soundscape.

As one of the most hypnotic tracks on the new album, “Straight Over Me” captures that noir-like mood that defines Brooks John Martin, stripping away past façades in favor of unfiltered honesty and lush, atmospheric storytelling.

About Brooks John Martin

Brooks J Martin is a Cedar Falls, Iowa-based singer-songwriter.

With a career spanning multiple monikers including Toast, The Blue Danes, and Frank Hansen, Martin has now fully embraced his own name. This markes a new era of raw, unfiltered artistry.

His latest self-titled album is his most personal work yet, bringing together lush arrangements, introspective themes and an expressive vocal style reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and The National.

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