820) Ren ft. Bibi - Crutch

Warning - This video contains themes that some might find disturbing.
What a heart-wrenching work of art this piece is! Ren Gill, known mononymously as Ren, is a tremendously talented musician from Brighton. He is famous for having been open and honest about his continuous battles with depression, bipolarity, and Lyme disease, and all of these are also manifested in his music. Nowadays he is very successful and seems to be in a much better place than he used to, but today we want to bring up a bit of an older gem that didn't quite get the attention it deserves. This 2016 track features Bibi, his girlfriend at the time, and is more pessimistic than some of his newer releases. The pain and melancholy in it are extremely effective, as they clearly come from true trauma and a lot of raw emotion. During the track's first half, which is mellow and quiet, the pair's voices remind us of duets between Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim of The xx. Then, as Ren's character in the song progresses for the worse, his vocals become strained, dense, and beautifully agonized. The lyrical storytelling, the musical production, the music video's cinematography - Everything about this piece is planned to perfection and is supplied with the right balance of explosive sadness and calculated restraint.
Enjoy! ♪
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Category:Avant-garde
Category:Alternative
Category:Rock
Category:United Kingdom
Category:England
Category:Sounds Like: IDLES
Category:Sounds Like: Pixies
Category:Sounds Like: The xx
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