Michigan native Garrett Borns, better known by his stage name Børns, has made waves in the pop world with his smooth, quirky electro-pop. There’s nothing Børns can’t incorporate into his music, pulling everything from soft folk to crackling glam rock into his concoctions. Driven by whimsical falsettos and dreamy confessions of love, Børns’ music is all angelic airiness and twisting, silvery melodies, capable of melting even the most stubborn listeners into hopeless romantics. Børns pairs his eccentricly catchy electro-pop with unorthodox lyrics that lend a further sense of surrealism to his music. Lyrics like “paradise, it’s in your eyes, green like American money,” give one the feeling that Børns’ wide-eyed declarations of unbridled love are tempered with a self-awareness and sarcastic playfulness. But that doesn’t prevent any listener from falling head-over-heels into his tempting landscape of starry-eyed romance.
Favorites: “Electric Love,” “Past Lives,” “American Money”
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