2023-11-13 20:04:40
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The Australian returns two years following his first album. A monster of mastery, the 25-year-old artist this time composed his songs alone, creating a record of euphoric and desperate beauty.
We left him handsome, crazy, brutal and shaky, a character from who knows what theater, somewhere between André 3 000, Jim Carrey and Johnny Rotten, author in 2021 of an elusive album – Smiling With No Teeth – where new wave, r’n’b and princely hard funk collided. We find him beautiful, crazy, brutal but no longer at all wobbly – on the contrary, solid, fluid, a monster of mastery with precise and unstoppable movements. With his second album, Struggler, Australian Genesis Owusu moved this year from pug to panther, from 100 meter hurdles to beam gymnastics. “When I compare my two albums, I have the impression of looking at photos of myself,” he explains to us over the phone. Smiling With No Teeth is me in elementary school, fresh, naive, innocent. With Struggler, we are a few years later, following puberty. What happened between the two? A kind of existential crisis.”
Because if Genesis Owusu is still a relatively confidential name here, this is no longer the case in Australia, where this 25-year-old young man with both athletic and androgynous mannerisms has won a series of awards – no less than four in 2021 at the ARIA Awards , the oceanic equivalent of the Victoires de la Musique, including album of the year for Smiling With No Teeth – and was seen, a few months ago, on stage with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. A success which took him by surprise and quite disoriented: “When I had to think regarding the
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