Back in 2017, Minneapolis-raised artist Jeremy Nutzman emerged with his debut project, NCOD, released under the moniker Velvet Negroni. It was a sprawling and strangely beautiful sound, with vast electronics teeming with an ambitious experimentalism and forthright vocals, all unconfined by any specific genre. This sound was something which, at the time, Nutzman credited to his unusual upbringing: a Black kid adopted by a strict white evangelical Christian family, he’d had no access to secular music...
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Today, Jeremy Nutzman, the Minneapolis-raised artist known as Velvet Negroni, releases ‘Pop Song 2 & 1’. Juddering and billowing with piano and flickering percussion, ‘Pop Song 2 & 1’ is taken from his upcoming second album, Bulli, out on 13 January 2023. Created during a particularly tumultuous time in Nutzman’s life that involved drug abuse, bank fraud, and a house fire, it’s unsurprising that Bulli would echo his present state of mind. Bulli feels anticipatory, often frantic and manic...
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Minneapolis-raised artist Jeremy Nutzman, the brainchild behind Velvet Negroni, has announced details of a second album. Bulli will be released on 13 January 2023 and its lead single ‘Sinker’ is out now. Whirring with a strutting positivity and rich instrumentation, ‘Sinker’ is accompanied by an official video directed by Casey Anderson. Watch below! Created during a particularly tumultuous time in Nutzman’s life that involved drug abuse, bank fraud, and a house fire, it’s unsurprising that Bulli would echo his present state of mind. Bulli feels...
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R&B experimentalist Velvet Negroni has released his debut album NEON BROWN – it’s out now via 4AD. Stream it here. The album features singles ‘CONFETTI,’ ‘WINE GREEN,’ and more recently released ‘KURT KOBAIN,’ garnering praise from the likes of The FADER, The Guardian and Pigeons & Planes and The Observer toting Velvet Negroni as an artist you need to know. On NEON BROWN, he is a griot relaying the life and...
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Ahead of his North American tour opening for Tame Impala, Velvet Negroni, 4AD’s latest venture in experimental RnB, shares his new song ‘WINE GREEN’, whose visual features his own drawings. The single is the second to be taken from his forthcoming debut album NEON BROWN out 30 August. Velvet Negroni, the creative alter-ego of Minneapolis’ Jeremy Nutzman, creates raw, experimental R&B centered on the level of intimacy his voice evokes hybridizing classic soul and West Indian elements.‘WINE GREEN’ is preceded by a...
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