Goddamned is a stripped down record filled with Brannan's silky smooth voice and acoustic guitar (not to mention the strings that pop up periodically). It's a brutally honest, instantly relatable album full of some amazing songs about love, heartbreak, living as a gay man, dating, and sex. It's probably one of the best albums by a gay artist that I have ever heard. Jay Brannan puts feelings that we've all felt one time or another into his songs and it makes it almost like he is singing about you. There are universal songs here that anyone, gay or straight, can relate to.
It's a flawless record. Not a bad song among the 11 tracks. Jay Brannan's lyrics are just amazing. In Bowlegged and Starving he sings, "I have my laptop for pleasure and my guitar for pain..." there is just something about the way he sings that line that just hits home.
One of the highlights of the album is the title track. It's about as epic as possible for an acoustic folk album. It's a song about the state of the world and its religions. It is the kind of song you just want to close your eyes and absorb. Listening to this song isn't enough. You need to feel it. He sings, "Mary and Muhammad are screaming through the clouds for you to lay your goddamned arms down, rip your bigot roots from the earth and salt the goddamned ground." To call it an intense song is a mild understatement. He sings it with such passion you can't help but be affected by it.
With Goddamned, Brannan has given us a pure album untouched by corporate influence and it is a dream album. It's an album that I have not been able to stop listening to since I received it. Powerhouse artists like Alanis Morrisette and Coldplay cannot come close to making an album like this. This is an album Rufus Wainwright wishes he could have put out.

《In Living Cover》是 Jay Brannan 于今天发行的第二张正式专辑。专辑包括7首翻唱曲目以及2首原创曲目，其中的《Drowning》是 Jay Brannan 自己写的第一首歌。
简单的吉他，轻轻地吟唱，声音里透出的一种对待生活和音乐的柔和，钢琴、吉他，不是电子的所谓奔放的组合，有的仅是一种简洁，如同当时那支奥尔本乐队带给我的感动一样——亲切、舒缓，还有点轻快。任何语言的形容，相信不过是一种多余的解释，因为，他的声音柔和得让人的心房稍稍颤抖。
他歌唱的是再尖锐不过的话题，关于同志、关于社会，这些或许在我们印象中只能用说唱、摇滚来表达自己想法的话题，在他的想法中，温柔同样是用来嘲笑和发泄不满的利器。他的出名不是依靠包装，因为，没有唱片公司接洽他的专辑出版，也没有人愿意出钱为他助阵，他只是坚持，只是如此坚持，不断在网络上贴视频，唱一首歌前，习惯地说说近况，说说自己想感谢的人，和那些成名歌手相比，他的成名是如此特别，或许，这也注定他会用不一样的方式，去获得更多的死忠歌迷。
他的歌唱让人不知不觉感怀，听着他的歌曲，就仿佛感觉到一个人在我们眼前倾诉着故事。他的声音有一点忧愁，那估计是生活在他的心中烙下的印迹。他还在通过音乐的语言表达着对生活的希望，也许正是因为他确实是个平凡的歌者，所以他更愿意去幻想、去歌唱、去演绎，直到歌声感动我，也感动每一个你。

2008 great depression publishing (bmi)
credits from Christmas Really Sucks, released 17 November 2009
written, performed, & produced by jay brannan
musical arrangement & mixing by ben crippin taylor
recorded by vivian stoll
mastered by mark chalecki
cover photo by stephen winter
additional inspiration by marco guazzone

Jay Brannan 2013年专辑.

Texas-born singer, songwriter, and actor Jay Brannan's angelic voice and folky, acoustic approach may make him appear like a garden-variety contemporary singer/songwriter, but his musical sensibility brings him closer to hard-to-fit-in-a-box female artists like Ani DeFranco, Lisa Loeb, Sinéad O'Connor, or Liz Phair, and he sounds like nothing so much as a male version of Joni Mitchell at times. Brannan appeared as Seth in John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 film Shortbus and his song "Soda Shop" was featured prominently in the film's soundtrack. Brannan released a limited-edition four-song EP called disasterpiece (it has also been listed as Unmastered) featuring "Soda Shop" that same year, amending it with two additional songs for a second 2008 edition of disasterpiece in 2008. Later that year he finally released a full-length effort, goddamned.

Jay Brannan is back with “Always, Then, & Now“; the 12-track follow up to his highly successful 2012 LP, “Rob Me Blind“. The album, which is already currently No. 4 on the Singer/Songwriter chart & in the Top 100 of the overall iTunes albums, was produced by Brannan himself and collaborator Drew Brody – who first worked with Jay on his 2009 LP, “In Living Color“.