Charlie Burg is a singer-songwriter who hails from Detroit and now currently lives in Brooklyn (with a stop in Syracuse, NY in-between) has been gaining some buzz of late, and you see why with his single, “Break The Rhythm,” recently released via FADER Label.
Combining the pop hooks and smart indie-leaning songwriting of acts like Del Water Gap, Burg is balancing a few genres in his arsenal with a great deal of confidence and wit. It’s a slick production, one that will likely send him skyrocketing in due time.
Find a detailed explanation of the song from Burg directly below, along with a stream:
The second chapter begins and so does the metaphorical thunderstorm. I wrote ‘Break The Rhythm’ in a hotel room in a small town in Texas on tour. While I was happy to be on my first tour, I felt a rootlessness that I couldn’t describe. Hadn’t I wanted this my whole career? Shouldn’t I be happy? It was also written amidst some heavy conversations about politics and religion with some close friends who were changing. At that point in life, I wasn’t sure how to cope with change at all. This song was written with a sense of doubt, feeling lost, and a painful ejection from childhood, an entrance into an unfamiliar world. The house (both literal and metaphorical) of childhood has been demolished, and I’m struggling to process it all in this new world.
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