In the ever-mutating landscape of UK electronic music, Blawan continues to defy categorisation, or at least blur the lines. Fires, the lead single from his forthcoming EP BouQ, isn’t just a song—it’s a sonic intervention that ruptures conventional genre boundaries.
Blawan weaponises his own vocal as the track’s central instrument, creating a visceral hook that slices through multilayered, pulsing beats. The result is a piece of music that feels simultaneously precise and unhinged—techno stripped of its mechanical rigidity, punk divested of its traditional instrumentation.
This latest work builds on the experimental trajectories of his previous solo EPs, Woke Up Right Handed and the excellently unhinged Dismantled Into Juice. Those releases suggested an artist recalibrating electronic music’s potential; Fires confirms it. The track exists in a liminal space between aggressive electronic psychedelia and fractured pop, suggesting a new musical dialect that Blawan is singularly constructing.
Already road-tested by tastemakers like Four Tet and Skrillex, Fires feels less like a track and more like a declaration: electronic music’s future is not about adherence, but radical re-imagination.
