Perry Ripley's Gospels Of A Broken Heart Blurs Genres and Hits You Hard

Gospels Of A Broken Heart is the soul-bearing new anthem from Brighton-based artist and storyteller Perry Ripley, and it's his most vulnerable and powerful offering to date. A bold evolution of the musician's sound, it's a tune I'm finding a little hard to pin down genre-wise. I also think that's why I keep returning to it again and again. Let's dive in.

Carried by soaring melodies and a blues-soaked core, Gospels Of A Broken Heart pulses with raw emotion. The drop at the forty-three-second mark crashes in fearlessly, transforming the track into a hard-hitting and genre-blurring piece of brilliance that really gets the blood pumping. 

Perry's ability to draw you in and then hit you with a sucker-punch at just the right time showcases the calculated mastery at work, as he delivers a cinematic song that unfolds like a confession in real time.

"Gospels Of A Broken Heart is about the quiet devastation and the gospel we write in our silence," says the musician. "It's heartbreak…but it's also hope".

With multiple features on BBC Introducing and an ever-growing fanbase, Perry Ripley is an artist you're going to want to keep a close eye (and ear) on!

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