"I'm holding you gently..."
[THESSENCE]
Everyone deserves a grand romance but so many of us will not experience one because we are not present enough. Henry Ryeder is an artist and musician based in New York and when you listen to "Grand Romance" with it's audacious exuberance, unabashedly pop meets rock indie stance drenched in a sort of elegant art rock wash you might get the feeling that Ryeder lives life to the fullest no matter what others think or maybe I am merely projecting because for most of my life I have not (and actually cared about what others thing way too much.) "Grand Romance's" runaway beat and Ryeder's vocal aesthetic that flows into sweet falsettos and strained biting mid tones is full of passion. For some reason as I listened (there is a sweeping theatricality here and with some of those pop melodies) I thought of a car crash of The Killers and Wham. Yeah, I did and how great is that?
-Robb Donker Curtius
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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.
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