"I've been listening to this song for almost a decade. It's depressing how fast the time flows." —Enzo Ponce Cano
(That might be the most Brightly comment ever commented.)
Brightly started out in the living room of my brother's place in Sandringham, in Melbourne, around 2010 or 2011. I was on the verge of dropping out of doing a masters in computer science, thinking about studying sound production, and I'd just bought Ableton and a Novation Launchpad. I booked a gig at The Brunswick Hotel and showed up with a laptop and an aux cable, and sang two songs with while the sound person looked on, openly uncomfortable. One song was called Seven Years, and the other eventually became Tokyo, originally recorded with a surreal, terrible faux-American accent (an inexplicably weird creative decision on my part, which led to re-recording a lot of vocals early on). Nic came and watched, for some reason saw something in it. He introduced us to [Ony](https