Release: Bruno Major - 'Columbo'

Bruno Major - 'Columbo' Out 21st of July 2023 (ENG) V2 Records U.K. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bruno Major reveals his new single “We Were Never Really Friends'' and an accompanying music video via Harbour Artists & Music / AWAL Recordings. LISTEN HERE& WATCH HERE.

He alsoannounces a run of international tour dates spanning the rest of the year. Tickets go on sale on May 12th and may be purchased HERE. 

“We Were Never Really Friends” marks Bruno’s first release since his album To Let a Good Thing Die in 2020. The track opens as a gentle piano ballad, nothing more than his plaintive vocals and the instrument—and then the drums come in and the song explodes open as he sings of the heartfelt blurring of friendship and romance and its inevitable messy aftermath. It’s a classic rock song, in the vein of McCartney and Lennon (complete with guitar solo), and it’s studded with eye-catching details and frank emotions, like a crashed Mercedes and an unreturned plea to come home. 

The Kassy Mahea-directed music video for “We Were Never Really Friends” is a dreamlike flashback through the eyes of Bruno. Featuring expansive, coastal Californian landscapes, the cinematic visuals follow the course of a relationship – fraught with overwhelming infatuation followed by an equally spectacular downfall, ending with a vintage Mercedes in flames.

“‘We Were Never Really Friends’ paints a picture of the blurry line between friends and lovers,” Bruno explains. “Ostensibly lamenting the loss of a good friend, until the ultimate realization arrives that it was always something more.”

The word “authenticity” has become ubiquitous when describing artists and musicians today, but when you encounter Bruno Major, you understand just how misused that term has become. Bruno has ascended the ranks to become, by many definitions, a globally influential artist, but has done so entirely on his own terms. The antihero of music stardom, Bruno has been completely uncompromising in his craft, creating unrivaled lyrical landscapes that don’t conform to the musical status quo of today, but still deeply resonate with fans, as evidenced by his billion stream career, propelled by viral hits “Nothing” and “Easily.” 

 

Bruno splices classic singer-songwriter confessionals with sleek modern electronic production, girding the entire enterprise with hints of soul. His dedication to sincerity and immediacy in his craft was solidified via his 2017 debut record A Song For Every Moon. Recorded and released independently, the record gained powerful word-of-mouth momentum internationally with key single “Easily” RIAA-certified Platinum in North America. Its 2020 follow-up, To Let a Good Thing Die was similarly far reaching, a beautifully crafted tapestry of stories of human relationships, love and heartbreak, and existential musings; one single, “The Most Beautiful Thing,” emerged from a special co-writing session with producer and pop luminary FINNEAS, and another standout track “Nothing” is RIAA-certified Gold in North America. Across the two albums, Bruno has amassed over 1.5 billion collective streams to date.

 

Bruno is trained as a classical guitarist and has earned support from the likes of Sam Smith, Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Charlie Puth, Lianne La Havas, Hailey Bieber, and Kourtney Kardashian, to name a few. Prior to the pandemic, he toured extensively, selling over 50,000 headline tickets, made his TV debut on the Late Late Show with James Corden, his festival debut at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, and opened for Sam Smith’s European arena tour. Now in 2023, as he divides his time between London and Los Angeles, he prepares for his first release in three years—his most ambitious album yet.

 

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