Boycrush

Auckland, New Zealand producer Boycrush (Alistair Ross Deverick) gets his energy from peppermint tea and ASMR as much as abstruse library music and early 90s electronics. His refracted, romantic dance music glows with a specifically New Zealand slant on a youth obscured by jaded existentialism and hypnotic, hybridized euphorias. Deverick lets feelings of isolation sit beside uninhibited elation; this duality culminates in the lyrical emotionality that intertwines with the starkness of autotune. The project is dynamically post-chillwave, fiercely digital, and simultaneously very human. Before Boycrush, Deverick was an accomplished drummer who, while on tour with the Ruby Suns, began spending his downtime huddled over a laptop and humming into a microphone. A collection of demos led to an invitation to attend the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid, launching his performance and recording career.