Henry Ryeder's & Henry Michaelson's soaring lush hug - "If You Hurt Me, I'll Let You Know"

 

"if you hurt me I'll let you know"

"If You Hurt Me, I'll Let You Know" by Henry Ryeder & Henry Michaelson goes down easy. It is a lovely dreamy pop song with a wide embrace. It has a touch of Wham's 1984 pop stunner "Last Christmas" (at least to me) and Ryeder's soaring croon that has the right amount of grit amid the heart crushing beauty. His falsettos are potent, the string arrangements are lush and the drum beat hearkens back to 60's surf pop and tear jerker songs à la The Beach Boys and The Surpremes. This New York based singer-songwriter had me when he sang out "honey love".

-Robb Donker Curtius

"A hypnagogic dream-rock song, 'If You Hurt Me, I'll Let You Know' is deceptively saccharine with a bitter twist of dissonance." - HR

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Henry Ryeder is an artist and musician from New York City. Though a late-bloomer in the exploration of his gender fluidity (getting caught shirtless dancing to I Would Die 4 U was a formative experience), Ryeder likes to blend stereotypically masculine musical tropes with provocative introspection. Whether he's taking himself that seriously or not is part of the fun, as seriousness is superficial when presented without self-awareness. All Henry wants you to think is that he's not quite what you expected him to be, and that's all an artist can really strive for.

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