Benjamin Luckhaupt from Cincinnati band My Brother's Keeper visited WYSO to perform and chat with Midday Music host Evan Miller about his band's new album Wartime Cartoons, out now on Robust Records.
My Brother's Keeper has recorded six full length albums including this newest one. The album is 15 songs total, but the CD has a bonus track included. Having recorded music together for years the band has gone through a lot of changes since first entering the studio.
"Sometimes you just think about things differently than you did in 2016, you know what I mean? Your mind is just in a different place, and a lot of things have changed, and so you're kind of writing about different things. Since our band started, there has been pandemics, elections, family trauma, people passing away, people being born- so many things change. So you have all the experiences and they build up and then you're just writing in a different place." said guitarist Benjamin Luckhaupt.
Wartime Cartoons is music for listeners to cherish during tumultuous times. Luckhaupt explained the idea behind the album's name.
"We're thinking of a way to describe the kind of things we lean on to bring us joy during difficult times. You see those old wartime cartoons of Bugs Bunny fist fighting the Nazis and Snoopy shooting down the Red Baron and stuff like that. Those cartoons are kind of used, you know, to help aid the war effort to some extent. So we were just kind of thinking of the things that we lean on that bring us humor, bring us a little bit of encouragement during difficult times. I think musicians are kind of like a wartime cartoon. They're there in the fight to try to bring change into the world, but they also bring that kind of joy and positivity at the same time."
