Brady Grey - 'Magic Bullets' (Rigby Mix)
If you’re looking for a song that seeps emotion and vast beauty from the second you press play, look no further than singer-songwriter Brady Grey’s ‘Magic Bullets’ (Rigby Mix).
‘Magic Bullets’ (Rigby Mix) opens with a striking strings arrangement and an evocative guitar melody that makes your skin shiver. Grey’s rich, reverberant vocal is instantly conversational and confessional, opening on the personal lyric, “Oh Doctor, you make me nervous of course these levels ain’t right, god I’m anxious”. ‘Magic Bullets’ is a diary entry documenting a distressing time in his family’s life, prior to his wife’s diagnosis of a rare genetic disorder called Ehlers Danios Syndrome.
Grey sets the scene intensely, ensuring the hopelessness, fear and helplessness driving the theme are fully realised, both lyrically and sonically. Grey’s emotive storytelling keeps its listener on their toes, firstly determined, as crossover cinematic and acoustic folk textures swirl and swell into a haunting instrumental.
Grey’s vocal floats in on the back of the instrumental, grief-stricken and vulnerable as he laments, “I think I’m disappearing, lost amongst the damage, can you take it away?” before his vocal climaxes in an explosion of raw catharsis. ’Magic Bullets’ (Rigby Mix) closes on a shivering instrumental, leaving its listener trembling in the aftershocks of the track’s devastating emotion.
Words of Karla Harris