Burden Pushes Past Beat Sketches on 'Away From You'
The self-taught Vietnamese producer teams with Zara Dee, turning bedroom keys and strings into a finished debut.
By 40MAG ·
Burden (Ngô Quốc Thắng) picked up music about a year back in Vietnam, starting with zero background and teaching himself the basics from scratch. After sitting on folders full of half-baked beats and feeling stuck in place, he set out to actually finish a song front to back. That push turned into 'Away From You', featuring Zara Dee, marking his first track out in the open.
Clocking in at 70 BPM, the track keeps its head down and stays minimal, letting slow piano chords, lush strings, and melodic bells ride underneath smooth, emotional vocals. Zara Dee's lyrics don't dance around the point, zeroing in on burnout and calling it quits: 'Feel like it was all a waste / Gotta learn to be okay without you / Just let me move away from you'. It is a humble, patient debut from a producer taking his first real swing outside the hard drive.