Uncover Hugo Brijs’ epically obsessive indie love music.
Hugo Brijs – ‘Creeper’
‘My creeper, she got here for me, two nights earlier than midsummer’s eve…’ opens ‘Creeper’ by Hugo Brijs. This may sound like the start of a horror film, or a minimum of a horrible date, however in Brijs’ fingers, it turns into an ecstatic, if just a little unhinged, indie love anthem.
Hugo Brijs is an artist, producer, composer and musical director. His profession has led him down a number of spectacular paths, with nods from NME and Radio 1, scoring for movie and TV, and creating for manufacturers like Calvin Klein and Vogue. This observe heralds his first artist launch in a number of years, with an album of the identical identify due later in 2024.
‘Creeper’ is a hovering, driving, indie-rock love music with greater than a contact of psychedelia.
The lyrics inform the story of a femme-fatale gangster capturing the center of a easy man. Regardless of her hazard and the very fact ‘she says she’s bored of me’, the besotted man begs her to ‘decide the white bread life’ and stick with him. It’s darkly enjoyable with a cinematic edge, delivered with easy melodies and sultry lead vocals.
The manufacturing is one thing particular, displaying all Brijs’ expertise. Starting with an unsettling, twanging, Japanese-influenced riff, it regularly builds and opens into one thing epic, with thrumming bass, heat strings and dreamy backing vocals. There are echoes of artists like Elbow, The Beta Band and The Beatles right here, nevertheless it’s undoubtedly bought an id all its personal. New and previous followers will benefit from the return of Hugo Brijs.
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