‘All I Want’ by Freebozzy Carried Stadium-Sized Tenderness Through Indie Rock Euphony
If you fused Sam Fender with Elliott Smith, Mumford and Sons and Slowdive, you’d be left with the same paradoxical blister of euphoric heartbreak that bursts in Freebozzy’s latest single, All I Want. After gentle angular guitar notes lull you into the quiescence of the opening, Freebozzy tears the stillness apart with full-bodied choruses that crawl behind your ribcage, catch in your throat, and surge conflicting emotions into your veins. There’s a melancholic heft behind the proclamation of “it’s you that I want, nothing else”, where the diehard vulnerability bleeds through the radio-ready polish, as though the recognition of not holding the cards is tangled with the surrender of giving everything you had to the admiration of another. The textures and timbres shift like tides, euphoric and stirring where they need to be, tender and unguarded in all the rest. Behind the moniker Freebozzy is Freeborn Eguabor, a multidisciplinary artist whose foundations in science and public health contrast the raw self-expression found in his songwriting. After discovering his passion for writing in 2016, he refined his craft into a form of musical medicine, channelling themes of hope, healing, and human connection. Already championed by BBC Introducing, All I Want solidifies […] The post ‘All I Want’ by Freebozzy Carried Stadium-Sized Tenderness Through Indie Rock Euphony appeared first on A&R Factory.

If you fused Sam Fender with Elliott Smith, Mumford and Sons and Slowdive, you’d be left with the same paradoxical blister of euphoric heartbreak that bursts in Freebozzy’s latest single, All I Want. After gentle angular guitar notes lull you into the quiescence of the opening, Freebozzy tears the stillness apart with full-bodied choruses that crawl behind your ribcage, catch in your throat, and surge conflicting emotions into your veins. There’s a melancholic heft behind the proclamation of “it’s you that I want, nothing else”, where the diehard vulnerability bleeds through the radio-ready polish, as though the recognition of not holding the cards is tangled with the surrender of giving everything you had to the admiration of another. The textures and timbres shift like tides, euphoric and stirring where they need to be, tender and unguarded in all the rest. Behind the moniker Freebozzy is Freeborn Eguabor, a multidisciplinary artist whose foundations in science and public health contrast the raw self-expression found in his songwriting. After discovering his passion for writing in 2016, he refined his craft into a form of musical medicine, channelling themes of hope, healing, and human connection. Already championed by BBC Introducing, All I Want solidifies […]
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