“Born in Brisbane, Australia to a coal mining father and champion athlete mother, Kodey’s desire to became a touring songwriter was a big surprise to them.”
Born in Brisbane, Australia to a coal mining father and champion athlete mother, Kodey’s desire to became a touring songwriter was a big surprise to them. They encouraged her newly found interest by buying her first guitar when she was twelve.
Kodey spent her teens quietly exploring a variety of musical instruments and a passion for creative writing and drama. Inspired by Stevie Nicks, The Temper Trap and Brandi Carlile, Kodey found her voice and realized that she had something to say. A major change in her life happened when she landed a scholarship to the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA.
Moving thousands of miles away from home for the first time brought joy, pain, love, heartbreak, and all kinds of adventure that she continues to explore in her songwriting. From her hometown of Brisbane, Austraila, to Nashville and then Madrid, Kodey has found her style as a blend of pop vocal melodies, folk guitar and descriptive lyrics. She loves wearing a different jumpsuit to every show, gold glitter, her two dogs, and discovering the wide world around her. Catch her on both sides of the globe where she plays local clubs and songwriter nights.
Kodey Brims Release schedule
Out of my hands - First Single (June 14 2019)
red dust - second single (July 26 2019)
out of my hands - EP (August 30 2019)
Out Of My Hands - First Single - June 14 2019
“So much change had been happening in my life and I hadn’t stopped to truly process it. The way I process complex emotions best is by sitting at my guitar and writing whatever comes to mind. I hadn’t done that in a long time. When I finally sat down to write about it, Out of My Hands poured out. It was a truly cathartic and gratifying experience.”
In Out of My Hands Brims initially personifies Time as “an outlaw and a thief,” but as the song progresses, she makes her peace and finds Time to be more of a friend. It is a candid reflection most twenty-somethings can relate to: change doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Recorded and produced with Invisible Heroes from their Nashville studio, the track has humble beginnings. The first verse is stripped bare with only vocals and piano, but soon the song grows into a lush pop arrangement evoking epic nostalgia and reflection
Red Dust - Second Single -July 26 2019
Kodey Brims gives a hypnotic and alluring take on being lost in the desert with the second single from her upcoming EP, ‘Red Dust’.
Brims has spent the better part of the past five years living overseas, so whenever she found herself feeling lost, her imagination always found its way back to the landscape of Australia.
The song came about on a stormy afternoon on her parents’ back porch in Brisbane. It was the summer of the freshman year of college and Brims has no idea who she was or where she was going. After the storm had passed Brims plucked a rhythm on the guitar and started writing the first of many versions of Red Dust.
In this Pop/Americana fusion Brims paints a vivid picture of the desolate landscape of the Australian desert. Her effortless, yearning vocals combined with the eerie instrumentation and haunting guitar line truly takes the listener on a journey.
Out Of My Hands - EP - August 30, 2019
After discovering her sound in the writers rounds of Nashville USA, Brims set out to create an EP that captured the intensity of growing into a young adult. Kodey Brims embraces honesty and growth with her new EP ‘Out of My Hands.’
The opening track Red Dust paints a vivid picture of feeling lost in one’s early twenties juxtaposed in the landscape of the Australian desert. The title track Out of My Hands is an honest confession of growth and accepting change with lush pop instrumentation and soaring vocals. Neon Colours is an upbeat pop track erasing self doubt and jumping into a relationship, and the final track Thunder is a step into self empowerment .
Recorded and produced in Nashville with fellow Berklee College of Music alumni Invisible Heroes, Brims set out to sonically reflect the story of the lyrics. The Out of My Hands EP creates stark desert landscapes, honest revelations and gathering storm clouds, beneath layered vocals and guitar textures.
Milestones
Berklee college of music (2017)
“Bundaberg rum & COke” Release (2018)
“Going north” Release (2018)
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