Former Pulled Apart By Horses guitarist, James Adrian Brown, delivers his debut solo album ‘Forever Neon Lights’. After achieving chart success, touring the world, and releasing four critically acclaimed studio albums with PABH, Brown has begun paving a new path in instrumental electronic music.
Brown’s solo work is heavily electronica-based, utilising analogue synths alongside tape machines, piano, strings, and immersive electronics. His focus lies in the analogue process of capturing and creating sound using physical hardware.
Hot off the heels of producing Benefits’ critically acclaimed album ‘Constant Noise’ earlier this year, and following a continual flow of live shows, singles, EPs, production and remix collaborations with the likes of Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Field Lines Cartographer, James Welsh, Werra Foxma Hayden Thorpe, Blood Red Shoes & Benefits.
‘Forever Neon Lights’ is an exploration of memory, movement and transformation. The album draws inspiration from childhood trips to the Blackpool Illuminations, where brightness, motion and imagination fused into a lifelong sense of creative possibility and hope. Across its tracks, Brown reflects on childhood wonder, the excitement of possibility, and the struggles and triumphs of chasing a creative life. The illuminations serve as both literal and metaphorical inspiration: dazzling, unending, and powered by unseen energy. Brown worked on the record with long-time collaborator James Mottershead, merging analogue hardware and immersive electronics into a vivid, evolving sonic landscape.
Forever Neon Lights marks a bold step in his reinvention from acclaimed guitarist of Pulled Apart By Horses to an instrumental electronic artist with a distinct emotional and sonic identity.
Speaking about making the record, Brown says:
“This album is me laying everything out, the things I’ve carried since being a child, the hopes, dreams, and doubts I’ve felt as an adult, and the stubbornness to see things through. Writing and recording it felt like reconnecting with that wide-eyed version of myself who thought the lights back in Blackpool wrapped right around the entire country every Christmas and went on forever. It’s about taking that feeling and turning it into something lasting and real.”