Thomas Geelens, the Dutch singer-songwriter, has skillfully launched a bold new chapter in his musical journey with "Your Illusions," the first track from a genre he has coined that combines indie afropop style. Thomas Geelens is acclaimed for his intensely fearless personal songwriting, witty lyrics, and blatant emotional vulnerability. In "Your Illusions," Geelens conjures flavours of African-inspired rhythms with pop sensibilities as his music sounds finessed and intimate yet spacious.
"Your Ilusions" is a slow build, hypnotic foray into abandonment and the silent disquiet created when you love someone who wanders away in their own perilous fantasy life. Lines like “So you build your illusions/ And castles in the sky” speak to the fragility of emotions free of judgment and blame and enable pain and empathy to live together: that love can jettison itself from someone when their hearts tell them that they are in denial of what was once love.
Geelen's vocal work is poignant soft yet indelible. It comes off as heavy and contemplative through lived experience. The production comprising layered percussion, synths, sounds from the atmosphere unearths good pop production concepts carried out in a fluid manner that is undefined genre.
"Your Illusions" represents yet another interconnecting chapter in a musician that is on the up and up in the Dutch pop landscape, following more than 47 million streams. Thomas Geelens is a bold creative, ready to wander further into uncharted territory.
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