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No One Mind, the songwriting moniker of Durham, NC-based multi-instrumentalist Ellis Anderson, began as a direct response to the ending of a past musical collaboration, and a close friendship. No One Mind’s Self-titled album, and single Born Again / Baron Gain debuted in 2016 on Third Uncle Records, grappling with feelings of betrayal and confusion through songs ranging from biting post punk, to dissonant psych experimentation, to melancholy art pop, and folk balladry, leading North Carolina’s Indy Week to name the record one of the ten best local albums of 2016, and Bandcamp Daily to claim “rarely has there been a record as focused and barbed in its execution.”
No One Mind’s sophomore album Secondary Gain (2023, Third Uncle Records) confronts Anderson’s fixation with treachery, loss, and mistrust. Through muscular hooks, machinic rhythms, and heartfelt melodies, the record paints vignettes of different characters attempting to dig themselves out of mourning, having become so accustomed to the feeling, it now seems like second nature. Collaborating closely with current bandmates Reed Benjamin (drums, synth) and Sam Logan (bass, guitar, synth) to form the new record, Secondary Gain shifts from ecstasy, to dread, and back again, with songs that harness pop structure to suck the listener in, hold them in the feeling, and spit them out in 3 - 4 minutes.
No One Mind’s most recent releases, the double-single Over My Dead Body / Holy Role-r (2023) and Watching the World (Fall Out of Love) (2024) continue to build on the legacy of the first two records, with Anderson shifting songwriting focus to the passing of his close friend and another past collaborator, regrets from teenage romance, and reflections on infirmity when faced with a deluge of global tragedies.
