Brian Buta

I picked up guitar at age 13, writing music immediately after learning a few chords. In high school and college, I played in several punk and rock bands, and started recording on 4-track and 8-track tape machines. In 2005, I started the Baltimore rock band FFHH, and simultaneously began exploring digital recording. My first full-length solo album, False Colors, was released in August 2007. I recently completed a second full-length album, Paper Ghosts (March 2008), and a new EP, Dislocation (July 2008).

My musical interests and ideas have followed many paths over the past decade. Though I started out playing simple acoustic songs, my output has spanned many styles, from punk to rock to pop. Overall, I try to make songs that are both engaging as well as unexpected; to pull the listener in with something strange yet familiar. As Music Monthly wrote about my 2003 EP, Ineffigy, “His music may loosely fall into the category of modern rock, but there is a dark industrial underbelly to Buta's songs that makes them different.”