Australian Singer Kirin J Callinan Sounds Like Morrissey on His Excellent Song “Bravado”

Australian Singer Kirin J Callinan Sounds Like Morrissey on His Excellent Song “Bravado”
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A lot of the time, experimental singer-songwriter Kirin J Callinan is just that—experimental. Appreciating the fragile humanity within his 2013 album Embracism usually required scraping off a layer of fragmented, electronically-enhanced industrial distortion first.

I don’t know where Callinan’s been keeping himself since Embracism, but he returned earlier this month with two new songs, “Bravado” and “S.A.D.” “Bravado” in particular sounds unlike the Callinan I’m used to—it’s still melodramatic and impassioned, but it’s also floaty, approachable. “It was all bravado,” Callinan sings, reaching…