Teenage singer-songwriter Khynan Rhys offers listeners an achingly raw excavation of the pain of being separated from someone deeply intimate on his sophomore single ‘Do You Still Remember?’ For anyone who has survived the messy emotional ruptures of a breakup or a shattering bereavement, or even the slow dimming of a one time brilliant connection, this new offering will feel like a searing but also beautifully cathartic window into the soul’s most vulnerable recesses.
Khynan kicks us off from the shimmering, synth textures that help usher us into this mindfully melancholic emotional terrain. He’s submerged us into uncommonly vivid psychological space, as his soulful, eruptive vocal, trailing a stripped down pop arrangement, emerges. ‘ Do You Still Remember?’ resonant lyrics seem to chart the exact angle of cutting ties: first, denial, then desperate pleading, before it hits the bottom of the barrel into unfeeling resignation, but through his beautiful melodic phrasing and introspection, Khynan gives ‘Do You Still Remember?’ grandeur.
We can hear echoes of our own most soul shattering losses and ruptures in his emotive vocal athletics, tremulous falsettos and palpable yearning . We cannot but feel the dull ache of our own cherished, but fading connections, as choruses swell into rapturous pleads to reconnect. ‘Do You Still Remember?’ like the best intergenerational pop musicality. It reminds us that even if we are old or new to this, we all bleed the same shade of heartbreak. Khynan is a wise-beyond-his-years, refreshingly unvarnished modern pop voice that feels vital. Proof that sometimes we have to exhume the past, and then follow it with a haunting salvo to move forward.
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