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Melbourne-based artist Bastian Hues makes music that feels as playful, bright, comforting and oddly refreshing as your best friend’s electric blue windbreaker brushing your face when they hug you. Or as unexpected and nourishing as that moment when you find yourself in a group of people you’ve never met, and are immediately accepted into their circle. Simply put: it’s music for anyone who’s still figuring themselves out. Bastian Hues’ distilled warped pop is the result of a proud outsider and aims to help others do the same through heart-on-his-sleeve lyricism and undeniably hip-shaking production that skirts playfully around the truly absurd. On buoyant debut single Gripz, written in his bedroom where his self-directed, self-edited video was also shot, Bastian Hues celebrates emotional honesty: “It’s important for us all, (particularly guys!) to express our emotions. Gripz is all about embracing the quirks, flaws and things that make us the amazing unique people we can all be’