Mind-blowing, heart-wrenching, leaping soulfulness from songwriter Zachary Lipkin, aka Refs, is what you’re getting with latest track ‘Boarding It Up’. It’s an explosive single centred around a powerful statement: “you tore my hearts last year and now I’m boarding it up, my baby.” Through a propulsion of intense bass and dynamic synths, Lipkin’s vocals lifts and loops and sinks and soars, conveying all emotions from faking happiness, to nostalgia, to sadness, to the strange mix of pain and liberation that heartbreak can bring. Describing the track’s sound as "peak euphoria tempered by crushed expectations as interpreted by a symphony of emotionally attuned synthesizers", Refs uses this self awareness to the fullest in ‘Boarding It Up’. A bold triumph indeed. - HT