Understood

Needle Mythology is thrilled to announce Understood – the first ever reissue of Understand – the acclaimed 1992 debut album by Brian. Brian was the ‘band’ name chosen by Dublin singer-songwriter Ken Sweeney after his songs attracted the interest of fellow Dubliner and head of Setanta Records Keith Cullen. The first sessions for Understand dated back to the summer of 1989. Propelled by work to the suburbs of West London, Ken found himself far from his comfort zone and raw from a particularly painful break-up. “I hardly knew anyone,” he recalls, “and the only way of making sense of things seemed to be writing songs.” Inevitably, the musical lodestones of Ken’s teenage years – The Go-Betweens, R.E.M., Miracle Legion, Trashcan Sinatras – started to percolate into his own musical language. In the space between estranged lovers, all the things that are too painful to say in words seemed to find their purest expression on a fretboard. It was in this space that