Daniel Briskin’s ‘Boy On The Lake’ Is A Miniature Masterpiece

"It's about self-growth..."

2020 is a year to focus on yourself, on your own needs and your own emotions.

Daniel Briskin recognises this. A pop auteur who is still breathtakingly young, his work taps into the profound shifts this year has wrought.

Take new single 'Boy On The Lake'. Out now, it's his debut release, and it presents Daniel Briskin as a daringly different pop voice.

Constructed alongside Jamie Reynolds and JONAH at a studio in Margate, it's a haunting piece of minimalist pop with a vastly creative electronic palette.

Partly prompted by cult 2004 flick Mean Creek, it's a kind of coming of age tale that focusses on self-growth.

As the film unfurled, Daniel “saw someone feeling weird, remote and small, and it struck me that so much of human nature is based on a need for validation.”

The song moves from image to image, a dance with emotion and continually veers forwards.

He adds: “The last line of the song is ‘follow if you can’, and with that the mood shifts. In the end the song says: ‘I’ve been this person, but please come with me on this journey I’m trying to have.’ It’s about self-growth.”

Tune in now.

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