18-year-old Randy Findell, known by his stage name brakence, is an emerging pop-electronic act out of Columbus, Ohio. He rose to awareness in the ‘anti-pop’ scene in 2018, due in-part to his striking stylistic similarities to artists such as EDEN and Jeremy Zucker. His style has recently developed into an ambitious and upbeat haze of melodics which are marked by ‘clean’ distortion, emotive vocals, and idiosyncratic production.
In 2019, brakence started his freshman year at Ohio State University. After just two weeks, he dropped out. This event became a pivotal theme to his debut record, punk2, which released in March 2020 to critical acclaim. brakence is now collecting a cult following and is more poised than ever to make 2021 his breakout year.