There is more than one artist with the name, including: 1) LA-based visual artist and musician Gabriel Brenner; 2) A dream-pop band formed in South Wales in 2017; 3) French Polynesian-born multi-instrumentalist; 4) A British indie band from Manchester. 1) LA-based visual artist and musician Gabriel Brenner began releasing music as Pastel in the Summer of 2013. Drawing on artists such as Arca, Grouper and Julianna Barwick, he crafted an idiosncratic style that fell gracefully between folk, gospel and experimental electronic music. By 2014, he had released his debut EP, It Will Be Missed, via Manimal Vinyl. In 2015, he released his second EP, Bone-Weary, via rising Houston-based label Very Jazzed. In 2017, he self-released an EP entitled: "absent, just dust". A 5 song collection exploring language, loss and identity through ambient-noise soundscapes. Brenner donated half of all proceeds from the release to Freshet Collective, who have provided legal support to water protectors since the founding of the Sacred Stone Camp. On Valentines Day in 2018, he released one-off single "Close" to celebrate the holiday. He is currently working on his debut full-length release. 2) Pastel is a dream-pop band formed in South Wales in 2017. Their first show was with Jack Perrett in November 2017, and have since gone on to amass a sizeable following in South Wales, playing with bands as such as The Riff, Trampolene and Pretty Vicious. Despite only gigging for four months, Pastel won The Wave FM's battle of the bands in March 2018. The prize was an opportunity to support the chart topping Scouting for Girls that July. 3) French Polynesian-born multi-instrumentalist with a popular style of chillwave and indie mix. 4) A British indie band from Manchester.
