By day, he's Brendan Chamberlain-Simon, an helicopter engineer for the Mars Perseverance rover with an astrophysicist pedigree. By night, he's channeling his job to create gorgeous space-rock and bedroom-pop as Proud Father.
shortly after he was debriefed from the Perseverance mission, Chamberlain-Simon discussed the inspiration behind the album — which tells the story of the first astronaut to journey to Mars — and how his own meteoric rise at JPL left him both professionally and personally “purposeless.” It’s a theme that courses through the album. “This was the tool that really pulled me out from a sense of aimlessness,” Chamberlain-Simon says from Los Angeles of the LP, out July 16th via Massif Records.
By age 23, Chamberlain-Simon was already at the controls of Perseverance’s predecessor, Curiosity. “It was such a strange existence for a while, because I was a kid, I was broke — I would take the bus instead of an Uber, and lose an hour but save $7 — and then go work on this multibillion project where they’d be handing me the keys of the vehicle, and it was very strange to grapple with,” he says.
“I was broke … and then go work on this multibillion project where they’d be handing me the keys of the vehicle.” “Music has been very important to me my entire life,” Chamberlain-Simon says. “And the process of this album ultimately was an exercise in self-exploration and catharsis. I didn’t really start it with the full intention of, ‘Oh, I’m going to make an album about space, because that’s what people want.’ It was truly, genuinely a way for me to unpack the emotional experience of what I was going through.
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