Latest Release
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- 15 DEC 2023
- 14 Songs
- Floor Seats · 2019
- Fuck the World · 2020
- Lost - EP · 2018
- WASTELAND · 2022
- WASTELAND · 2022
- Language (feat. Brent Faiyaz) - Single · 2017
- WASTELAND · 2022
- Paper Soldier - Single · 2021
- Dead Man Walking - Single · 2022
- MERCEDES - Single · 2021
Essential Albums
- Toward the end of the 2010s, Brent Faiyaz emerged as R&B's new face of dazed cool. Merging a feathery falsetto with stylishly ambient soundscapes and themes of fractured love, he announced his arrival with Into, an EP he dropped as part of the trio Sonder. Riding the momentum of a memorable hook on GoldLink's "Crew", he secured his position with Sonder Son, a debut album coated in sullen croons, introspection and brooding atmosphere. Released amid his rise to stardom, the project dives into the world of an everyman dreamer—a haze of impressionistic memories, big ambitions and vignettes of life-changing transition. Easing into lithe Spanish-guitar strings of "First World Problemz / Nobody Carez", Faiyaz discovers tranquillity in aspirations and temporary poverty. The details are as symbolic as they are Earthly, rendering a portrait of the quiet appreciation you can find in washing your clothes in the sink, hanging with the bros and living to breathe another day. Meanwhile, "Missin Out" sees him drift over an astral beat for a track that's as pleading as it is petty, giving a potentially lucky somebody one more chance to kick it before he begins his L.A. fairy tale. It could be a prelude to an "I told you so", but his wispy tenor and the spacy beat emit genuine longing from a soon-to-be playboy. He seeps into vindictiveness again on "Needed", where he remembers a woman who doubted him before his fame only to claim she believed in him the whole time. Brent looks to the present and future, but he's most powerful making trips to the past. For "Gang Over Luv", he serves up a misty tribute to the old days, suffusing a bare-bones instrumental with images of empty pockets, brotherhood and pulsing teenage hormones. The beat is spare, but he layers it in supple backing vocals that infuse it with a ghostly ambience. It's simultaneously mournful and accepting—a silhouette of lingering feelings and evaporating innocence.
Albums
- 2017
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023
Artist Playlists
- An R&B upstart with a weathered soul.
- Hear the songs the hip-hop innovator is performing on tour.
- Apple Music’s live series continues with Brent Faiyaz in London.
- 2023
Live Albums
Appears On
More To Hear
- He took us to WASTELAND two years ago.
- The artist joins Zane live on the show.
- Nadeska talks to Brent Faiyaz about his album 'WASTELAND.'
- The artist joins to discuss his album 'WASTELAND.'
- The R&B artist talks his EP, F**ck the World.
- Mixes from G0HomeRoger x Kid Masterpiece, Govi, and Vacations.
- Mixes from G0HomeRoger x Kid Masterpiece, Govi, and Vacations.
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About Brent Faiyaz
As R&B entered a renaissance with young, adventurous artists in the 2010s, Maryland-bred singer-songwriter Brent Faiyaz emerged as one of its standard-bearers with his honest lyrics, social media-ready one-liners, and soothing voice. Born Christopher Brent Wood in 1995, he left his Maryland hometown for Charlotte, North Carolina after high school before jetting to LA to pursue his musical dreams. There, he seemed to pop up virtually out of nowhere. He self-released music online before singing the silky, gold digger-dismissing chorus for 2016's "Crew," the ubiquitous hit by Goldlink and Shy Glizzy. He also cofounded R&B trio Sonder the same year with Dpat and Atu, a pair of producers who created spacey, atmospheric soundbeds for Faiyaz's musings on the group's moody EP, Into. As he settled into 2017, Faiyaz leaned further into the layered, vulnerable songwriting that powers Sonder's sound and also drives his solo projects. On his debut LP, Sonder's Son, he tells childhood stories over dreamy beats and narrates the coming-of-age growth that followed his move to the West Coast. And by his follow-up 2018 EP, Lost, he's fully preoccupied with his station in life, channelling his fear of being a young Black man in America ("Why'z It So Hard") and the isolation of his success ("Trust"). He delivers sincere, punchy penmanship wrapped in gorgeous melodies and backs it with versatile production—and that's no different on 2020's F**k the World, which swerves between giving in to the fast-paced, hedonistic Hollywood lifestyle and struggling to find meaning in the midst of it. In 2022, he released his second LP, WASTELAND. A year later he performed an Apple Music Live session in London and released his third album Larger Than Life.
- HOMETOWN
- Columbia, MD, United States
- BORN
- 19 September 1995
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul