Fusilier

“Here comes a stunning new Brooklyn artist I had never heard of before this week and I can’t wait to share with you...I hope he’s going to make an awful lot more music.” — BBC 6 Music

“The sexual tension on the track and video is brazenly palpable, just as Fusilier intended” — Stereogum

“The Indie Artist You Need to Listen to This Month” — OkayAfrica

BIO: “You’re black and gay. How does it feel to have two things wrong with you?” That question hit hard when it was directed at Blake Fusilier several years ago, after a show by his former rock band. The body of work he’s creating with the Fusilier project is art meant to make that question irrelevant and drain it of its power.

Fusilier grew up in Atlanta during the heights of hot local labels like LaFace and SoSoDef. As a teenager, he picked up the violin with hopes of playing as well as Itzhak Pearlman while guarding his love of Georgia natives Goodie Mob. An interest in literature would lead him to brood over Edgar Allen Poe while a vocal community pride in local neighborhoods like Decatur or Stone Mountain became the backdrop for his day-to-day life.

Later, attending college in Boston, he joined a popular local alt-rock band called RIBS who were locally famous, and got to open for much larger alt-rock bands like Queens of the Stone Age and Joy Formidable.

Now based in Brooklyn, the Fusilier project has been making waves—signing to The National’s record label Brassland and releasing a series of singles & videos to great critical acclaim.

RIYL: serpentwithfeet, Blood Orange, L’Rain, Moses Sumney, Glass Animals
TRY: #1, 3, 4, 6, 2

Download full album here:
https://www.piratepirate.com/downloads/

More Info Here:
http://brassland.org/artists/fusilier
https://fusilier.nyc/
https://www.facebook.com/fusiliermusic
https://twitter.com/blakeful
https://www.instagram.com/blakeful/