Harriet Brown is a producer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter who classifies his impassioned '80s-flavored R&B as romantic funk. Originally from the Bay Area and eventually based in Los Angeles, Brown debuted on the Feel So Real label in 2014 with New Era, a five-track release that looked like it came from 1987 while sounding like retro-futuristic machine soul spiked with vintage Japanese art-pop elements, howling falsetto vocals, and scorching guitar solos. The EP's "Stop Think" was released the following year as a digital maxi-single with remixes from four artists, including Suzanne Kraft. Brown's next major release was an album, Contact, issued on Innovative Leisure in 2017. By then, Brown had been featured on tracks by the Bilinda Butchers ("Heaven Holds a Place"), Classixx ("Eyes on Me"), and AR Ferdinand ("As You Wish"). Over several months in 2017 and 2018, Brown recorded a second album at his home studio with minimal outside input. Mall of Fortune, released in 2019, expanded his scope of inspirations to include the synthetic pop-R&B of early-2000s Neptunes productions. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi