BOY DESTROY SHARES NEW SINGLE 'BEAUTIFUL CRIMES' + WARPAINT EP OUT 15 APRIL
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“Nowadays artists are refusing to be categorised and Swedish singer Boy Destroy is one of them.”
- Wonderland
"This Swedish artist is attempting to change the face of alternative music.” -
Rock Sound
"[He] plays up to his true love of grunge and emo music...whilst still feeling like the future. He’s a proper modern-day musician. Totally and utterly addictive."
- Jack Saunders (BBC Radio 1)
“Addictive hooks of a master songwriter.”
- Gigwise
Swedish rising alt star Boy Destroy has shared a new single 'Beautiful Crimes' today, taken from his forthcoming debut EP Warpaint due 15 April.
‘Beautiful Crimes’ is a vibrant nostalgic alt-R&B meets emo ditty, showcasing yet another facet of Boy Destroy’s multidimensional universe. The new track sees him looking back on the part he played in a toxic relationship, through a glistening and hedonistic lens.
About the new track he says “Everybody longs for connection. Togetherness. A need that can be fulfilled with flesh or love or peace or whatever. I used to be in a twisted relationship with a person that I didn’t really love, but I said I did. I wasn’t a very good person to her but I made it look like I was. I wasn’t faithful and I felt like the devil, but then and there it felt like it was exactly how it should be. She hates me now, and I deserve it. You can fix yourself if you’re lucky.”
In just under a year Boy Destroy has firmly solidified his unique identity within alternative music with a trailblazing approach to the genre, quickly securing support from BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders who after several plays made debut single ‘Warpaint’ his Tune of the Week stating “Boy Destroy really has a handle on big time pop music in 2020 with that real strong trap beat that glides over the top of the very lonely flux grunge guitar line. The lyrics are just stunning.” Rock Sound Magazine described the single as “a display of raw creativity and beautiful darkness that promises great things to come’”, and Alternative Press included him in their ‘50 New Artists You Need To Hear’ column proclaiming “Add ‘Warpaint’ and ‘As Time Goes By’ to your playlists and you’ll be able to say you heard Boy Destroy before he blew up with the 2021 release of his debut EP”, alongside securing further fans with Apple Music Radio 1, Wonderland, 1883, Upset Magazine, Discovered Magazine and Gigwise. He also recently covered ‘1979’ by Smashing Pumpkins, and ‘Vampire’ by Dominic Fike, further demonstrating the impressive expanse of his musical repertoire.
Produced by We know nothing, Boy Destroy’s forthcoming Warpaint EP is due for release 15 April, and documents his dark, brooding and dramatic story so far. In his own words he describes the EP “as a collection of stories from my sometimes troubled life. It's about our time. It's about human beings. Isolated like islands, bound together by a sick longing for connection. Self destruction and redemption in the digital age”. A visual mixtape of some of the EP tracks featured can be viewed here.