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Add to playlist: Rian Brazil’s Björk-beloved sounds of Brighton youth and the week’s best new tracks

The earworm wizard blends sample-heavy electronic beats with sugary vocal highs and bassy lows, giving authentic voice to England’s fringes From London via Brighton Recommended if you like Jawnino, Fakemink, Jai Paul Up next Engine Heartbreak EP released 20 May Not many can say that Björk has played their track while DJing at the Venice Biennale, but, as of last weekend, Rian Brazil is one of them. The Brighton-born producer, also praised by pop star Lola Young , is a master of earworms, which he weaves from the sample-heavy sounds of the UK underground (see his longtime collaborator, Fakemink producer Clearo ) and the saccharine highs and bassy lows of his vocals. On first listen, you might mistake the huge range of his melodies for Auto-Tune, but this, impressively, is Brazil’s raw voice, modulated vocally to achieve deeply vulnerable performances that set his sound apart from his rap-

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Add to playlist: Rian Brazil’s Björk-beloved sounds of Brighton youth and the week’s best new tracks, The earworm wizard blends sample-heavy electronic beats with sugary vocal highs and bassy lows, giving authentic voice to England’s fringes From London via Brighton Recommended if you like Jawnino, Fakemink, Jai Paul Up next Engine Heartbreak EP released 20 May Not many can say that Björk has played their track while DJing at the Venice Biennale, but, as of last weekend, Rian Brazil is one of them. The Brighton-born producer, also praised by pop star Lola Young , is a master of earworms, which he weaves from the sample-heavy sounds of the UK underground (see his longtime collaborator, Fakemink producer Clearo ) and the saccharine highs and bassy lows of his vocals. On first listen, you might mistake the huge range of his melodies for Auto-Tune, but this, impressively, is Brazil’s raw voice, modulated vocally to achieve deeply vulnerable performances that set his sound apart from his rap-

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Add to playlist: Rian Brazil’s Björk-beloved sounds of Brighton youth and the week’s best new tracksThe Guardian - 2026-05-15T11:00:39+00:00

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