Taylor Swift said he had made an ‘instant classic’, and with his psychedelia-tinged take on electro pop, Michigan’s Garrett Borns is clearly going places
Garrett Borns, better known by his stage name Børns, is just north of Denver, Colorado standing outside the 1stBank Center in Broomfield. Under a strong October sun, he’s surrounded by the flurry of activity of chain-smoking crew members feverishly preparing for the night’s show, in which he’s supporting the Icelandic act Of Monsters and Men. The air is full of the smell of running semi-tractor trailers, dumpsters and secondhand smoke. “Very glamorous,” he deadpans.
Borns fortunately couldn’t care less about his surroundings, since this Rocky Mountain stop is part of a nationwide victory lap following last fall’s release of his debut EP, Candy. The electro-charged, psych-tinged indie pop has made the Michigan native an indie darling and created a palpable buzz that’s been building up to this week’s release of his debut album, Dopamine. “This past year has put me in a different state of mind than I’ve ever been in,” he says about his ascendence from a young singer-songwriter to hyped proto-pop-star. “I’m in a different artistic state of mind, a different performance state of mind. I’m testing the introvert and extrovert in me and seeing how far I can push myself both ways.”
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