Leo Bhanji’s “Blood & Guts” is a moody alt-pop creation

London artist Leo Bhanji’s musical landscape is a jigsaw of distorted, fragmented scenes. His solitary figure is cast against a pulsating canvas, blending into the surrounding portraiture until his features are blurred, at times lost completely in the pixelated framework.

“I played around a lot with this song and tried to capture a whole train of thought quickly without filtering it too much or it being overly composed; I was picturing summers where I didn’t know why I was at events, wasn’t 100% sure I wanted to be there and kind of had to make an effort to let go and enjoy things” Bhanji explains.

“Since I’m done being a teenager now it’s interesting to recount what parts of those things stuck in my memories longest – I don’t have a good memory at all, but sometimes while I’m writing I’ll get a line that just brings things rushing back and colours the whole song with that quick glimpse.”

Inspired by pop punk and left-field R&B, the minimalist production allows the artist’s laidback vocals to take centre stage, his experimental layering delivered as nonchalantly as a shrug of the shoulders.