Bree Runway has spent the yr correcting her underdog standing. The world has lastly caught as much as her ingenious pop music in 2022 with a BRIT Rising Star nomination, a sold-out US tour, and an NME cowl as well. To cap all of it off, the style queen of British pop-rap has launched a shock challenge, ‘Woah, What A Blur!, that provides extra of her it-girl character and ventures into new digital kinds.
The sound of revving engines careening off into opener ‘Archive Mami’ is an invigorating begin. Bree provides the low-down on who’s on high (“And when you say that I’m a no one on-line / Why the hell did Gaultier despatched me shit from the archive?”), however the tune is reduce criminally brief. You’re left fiending to listen to the complete model, however the subsequent monitor ‘BREEE!’ makes amends with tight melodic rapping threaded by weighty bass kicks.
Bree faucets into her assured, opulent self on the hulking Baltimore membership monitor ‘That Woman’. Doused in metallic manufacturing prospers, she lets unfastened on Ballroom-tinged raps which have a contact of Desserts Da Killa of their slinky wit. “They salty ’trigger I carry the pepper / I’ll be the it woman, now and endlessly”, she spits. “Sickening physique, it’s unfair / I can pronounce every thing I put on”. Bree’s cocksure efficiency brings out one thing of a thematic sum-up for her yr: “I already been that woman / When you dangerous and you realize it, higher present out, woman”.
The only questionable second on the discharge is ‘Choose Your Poison’, a plucked-guitar Afropop duet with Stormzy. It’s about two folks attempting to attach regardless of having completely different attitudes in the direction of ingesting, however you possibly can virtually envision the music video of the 2 leaning on reverse sides of the identical wall singing out into the space. It lacks Bree’s usually ingenious spark: whereas there may be room for her to make a slower ballad – because the sensible, Jai Paul-ish ‘Any individual Like You’ from this yr proves – right here, she feels caught in a pop formulation.
‘FWMM’, nonetheless, exhibits Bree changing into an album artist with a charming confessional. She expresses a want for intimacy from her companion over a bedrock of heat interstellar synths, earlier than taking the route of D’Angelo’s ‘Untitled (How Does It Really feel)’ and portray the climax of intimacy by a godly rise. ‘Woah, What A Blur!’ is an exploratory assortment that goes to a number of stylistic locations, but when Bree Runway’s forthcoming debut album fills within the gaps, her stardom can be inconceivable to downplay.
Particulars
- Launch date: December 9
- File label: EMI
