Confit releaes new Hip Hop / Pop track – Brutish
Portland-born art-pop project Confit arrives with “Brutish” — a driving, hypnotic track that explores the beautiful unease between control and collapse.
Serving as the lead single from the upcoming debut album, “Brutish” stands alongside the haunting introspection of “Wake Up, Darling,” the cryptic surrealism of “Dinnerbone,” and the melancholic warmth of “Sweater in the Cold.”
Blending brooding restraint with the soaring drama of glam-era catharsis, “Brutish” is a study in tension, release, and emotional gravity. Rooted in minor-key melancholia and anchored by a steady, pulsing rhythm, the track combines clean guitars, stark percussion, and shadowed harmonies to create a sound that feels both intimate and cinematic.
Male and female vocals trade off like reflections in a dark mirror, weaving a story of emotional armor and the slow erosion that follows loss. The song moves with restraint — not toward resolution, but toward acceptance.
Each Confit release expands an interconnected world, visualized through cinematic vignettes. Together, these works form a surreal continuum — the familiar made strange, and the strange made heartbreakingly familiar.
About Confit
Confit is an interdisciplinary music and visual project exploring the border between memory and invention. Emerging from Portland and now based in New York, Confit constructs songs as environments — places to inhabit rather than simply hear.
With a style that merges baroque-pop sensibility, ambient tension, and narrative precision, Confit’s work exists somewhere between dream and documentation.
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