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BOYLIFE
shares new song
‘AMPHETAMINE’
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BOYLIFE // Photo credit: Aijani Payne
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Praise for BOYLIFE
“Place boylife squarely in that impossible-to-predict category of artists who are often the most exciting to follow” – Pigeons & Planes
“Through his music, boylife reminds us we’re not alone in facing our most brazen feelings” – Ones To Watch
“Get ready to hear a lot more about boylife” – The Line Of Best Fit
“Tender” – Billboard
“Stunning and brooding” – Dusty Organ
“Meta modern day soul, made for the masses” – Zane Lowe
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Today, boylife shares the new single ‘amphetamine’. The new song arrives on the heels of the recently released track ‘lush‘ and marks the second release from the artist since last summer’s double-single ‘church / boston’.
‘amphetamine’ has two chapters, even though the track is just under three minutes. The first half of the song is a passionate, energetic avant-R&B number where boylife’s Ryan Yoo’s vocals pack high emotion into each line while the latter half tapers into an intimate voice-over speaking directly to Yoo and the audience.
About the new song, Yoo said, “‘amphetamine’ is a tribute to women being in the driver’s seat of a sexual relationship, and also Prince”.
boylife’s voice has the smoothness of a quintessential R&B crooner which he is working to push beyond the border of recognition—he took the name boylife from a Cody Chesnutt song, after all. “The voice is an instrument, and I like my instruments to be versatile and malleable”, he says.
‘AMPHETAMINE’ is out now
via The Orchard, buy/stream it HERE
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About BOYLIFE
Ryan Yoo, who makes introspective, uncompromising music as boylife, has never boxed. Growing up in a Korean-American family in southern California, he tried taekwondo and kendo, but didn’t step into the ring. Still, the sport fascinated him.“Two people come into a ring and give permission to hurt each other,”he says.“That’s insane.” It’s also, he explains, a useful analogy for the struggle at the core of his art. “The goal of boylife is to be very naked,”he says. The pressure to posture, to conform to some stereotypical American masculinity, or the prejudiced constraints of Asian-American maleness—Ryan has squared off against those things for years. You can hear the struggle in the juxtapositions in his music, the way he moves between genres. The tension between a blunt line sung in an R&B croon against beautiful acoustic guitar, or a manic chopped-up sample making way for pummeling drums and percussive language.
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