BRIEL the Artist Drifted into a New Soul Dimension with BLUR, the Alt-RnB Serenade to Emotional Ghosting

BRIEL the Artist turned a hollowing sense of emotional dislocation into an alt-RnB siren’s call with their latest single, BLUR. Produced in collaboration with brokebwoy, the track leans into a duality of smooth torment and quirked-out levity. Every bar comes cushioned in velvet, yet weighted with enough introspection to crush the psyche if you sit with it too long. Instead of relying on vocal acrobatics or histrionic dramatics, BRIEL exercises a patience in delivery that echoes the paralysis felt when you’re trying to claw through silence to reach someone who has already started leaving the room in their mind. As the track threads through woozy synth glitches and percussion with clipped sharpness, BRIEL steps between two selves. The late-stage romantic unravelling is narrated both by the ever-earnest BRIEL and his alter ego, P!MP B, who shuffles in as the cheeky shadow self trying to breathe levity into suffocating voids. It’s that tension between despair and forced humour that cuts the deepest; it all feels brutally real, but nothing in BLUR ever begs for sympathy. It just shows you the ache in hi-def. Pulled from the upcoming debut mixtape, DAMN GENESIS, BLUR introduces BRIEL not as a facsimile of the old school, […]

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