Ark Patrol Lyrics

Anyone who's into the chill, indie-pop genre is familiar with the name Ark Patrol (real name Brandon Gomez). Native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the newly-transplanted Los Angeles resident is known best for his "warm and harmonious beats, riddled with 8-bit snippets and lush vocal shots.” It's new-age electronic where video game samples collide with classical influences, or what the producer calls "Soultronica,” a new style that Ark Patrol is pioneering. Ahead of his recent Sirius XM Chill guest spot, CE [Conscious Electronic]sat down with the young producer, who proved wise beyond his years in his demeanor and responses.

From setting goals that are achievable and more attainable, learning to let go of expectation, and not basing his artistic worth on streaming metrics, Gomez carries himself with certain humility, authenticity, passion, and reverence for his creative process that is rarely seen in many early-twenty-something artists. "My motivation has changed to not rely so much on feeling 'good' but rather in a passive trust of the process,” he tells CE.

Gomez continues, "2020 has been a huge year of learning and challenges for me. Very personal from start to finish. Relationships, self-care, maintaining my self-image, learning how to listen to my feelings. Understanding that all of these things tie into my creative productions and my relationships.”

After releasing his latest full-length, Geode, Gomez took the summer to focus on himself before finishing off the year with a chill, acoustic re-release of his 2015 track, "Let Go,” with Veronika Redd. The song actually went viral on TikTok, making Ark Patrol somewhat of a Tiktok star during a time when the Chinese-owned platform was receiving a lot of mainstream attention with Microsoft attempting to buy the social app and Trump trying to block its use in the US altogether.

Even today, "Let Go” is still going viral on Tiktok that has been going viral for the past year. The record now has over 290k Shazams, 250k Tiktok videos, and over 30 million total streams to date. It is currently doing over 90k streams per day, was placed on the Spotify editorial list, Chill Vibes, and is not showing any sign of slowing down . But that's all neither here nor there for Ark Patrol, who chooses not to base his worth in numbers, but in how he connects to the music: "my expectations are ridiculously low when it comes to metrics,” he says.
-consciouselectronic.com