Skinny G Radio Gave Burnout Its Own Choral Indie-Pop Escape Hatch with ‘Break, Now!’ –

Break, Now!, the latest single from Skinny G Radio, featuring the Epoch House Choir, is gospel for the perpetually burnt out. Those who need an arcanely euphoric push to steady the pace and push away productivity guilt will feel the pressure slip away as Skinny G Radio sings from an anti-capitalistic hymn sheet.

Taking the perfected formula of 80s and 90s choral pop hits and adding polyphonic synth lines, the earworm carries a quaint, humble feel to juxtapose the ethereal layered harmonies. Skinny G Radio has always had a way of taking indie pop aesthetics and shaping them into something no other artist could contour with the same charm, and Break, Now! extends that gift into communal release.

Behind the brightness, the single carries real-life weight. Geoffrey Lussier, the Connecticut-born songwriter and producer behind Skinny G Radio, wrote Break, Now! after eight days in hospital before turning 30, during a liver cancer scare as he was falling in love.

After shadowing 10x Grammy-winning producer Darrell Thorp, Lussier created The Heightening and Skinny Mini Opus before this return. With Epoch House Choir raising the refrain into a collective exhale, he taps into the exhausted cultural zeitgeist and offers an olive branch away from drudgery, reminding listeners that the hamster wheel will always be there.

Break, Now! is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast