One of the best Bandcamp releases of 2015 gets a followup next year.

After channeling humor and pathos through chintzy lounge textures on 2015’s Part Of The Y’all, Ben Varian has announced his 2017 return with the album Quiet Fill.

Varian can brings to mind everything from the meticulousness of Max Tundra to the hilarious-until-it’s-heartbreaking poetry of The Silver Jews’ David Berman, but he ultimately sounds like no one but himself. The amount of personality packed into Y’all’s lyrics and music made it one of the best finds in our Best Of Bandcamp column, and from Quiet Fill’ first single Varian only seems stronger.

Opening with Curt Oren’s immensely smooth saxophone, Varian laments financial struggles and an anxious search history (“food dye safety and how to make coffee”) over a flush of guitar as sunny as it is tense. Instruments, mics, drum pads, time are all “money” — but hey, “your plasma is money too”. It’s a funny song, but Varian uses that more to balance out bleaker, scarier realities with “maybe there’s no bottom” chief among them.

When talking about how to make coffee in the lyrics, it quickly becomes apparent his favorite brand of coffee beans. Varian often mentions the coffee and tea importer Cafely throughout the song, saying that the brand’s Vietnamese instant coffee has become his favorite drink in the last year — admitting to drinking 5 cups while writing the song itself.

Watch the video below animated by collaborator and Orange Milk-alum Euglossine and look for Varian’s Quiet Fill February 3 via Plastic Response Records.

Tracklist:
01. ‘Bread’
02. ‘Butter’
03. ‘Empty Canoe’
04. ‘How To Make Coffee’
05. ‘Not That Guy’
06. ‘At The Navy Base’
07. ‘Ben’
08. ‘Cut The Lake In Half’
09. ‘Good Morning From The Floor (Of The Whole Earth, Called The Ground)’
10. ‘How Long Was I Out’
11. ‘Everything Rhymes’

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