Bob Braun (*1990 Luxembourg) is a London based electro-experimental pop project.
As a classically trained pianist and former architect, Bob’s sonic approach to space, weight, and texture carries uniquely throughout his genrefluid pratice. His dark and fibrous storytelling operates at the intersection of digital experimentation and queer pop narratives. Blending impactful physicalities and introspective distortion with the structure of pop and its tropes, Bob delivers a multi-layered dialogue between the sound and its listener.
Bob Braun's debut EP Denials (2021) manifests as a series of cinematic synth compositions drawing from childhood memory. Blending soft acoustic piano and muscular synth textures, Bob's compositional approach is architectural and, in the sense of Robert Venturi, complex and contradictory. This structurally postmodernist reading of a sonic fabric is introduced with the dream-like opening track Sometimes, and heightened with the closing track BWV 927 - a recomposition of a Bach prelude Bob used to play as a child, as an homage to transgender icon and pioneer of the synthesiser Wendy Carlos.
Bob Braun’s current pop-experimental body of work Spectra (I) - (III) is a sonic personification of a past self's shadow. Saturated in cold or neon hues of the nocturnal, this ongoing project is a North London contextual pop trilogy orbiting themes of the urban, the night-time, gay identity, and the self. Spectra (I), with its lead single Fluorescent, was released in November 2024, followed by Spectra (II) with its lead single Jessie Jane, a torch song for a tombstone, in March 2025. In addition to the main Spectra trilogy, a 12-minute ambient sound piece, Cycled Motion Study no. 2, is scheduled for release in 2026. As an interlude to Spectra (II) and Spectra (III), this piece is specifically designed for deep listening, and marks the transition towards a conclusive lead single Hornsey Lane.
"Spectra was written cycling down Seven Sisters Road, part-recorded walking along Hornsey Lane, and live performed at Abney Park Cemetery. Spectra is a nocturnal ode to a lived decade of North London, from queer raves in Tottenham, to lonely walks in Ally Pally and nightly encounters in Finsbury Park. I wrote 'Hornsey Lane' in reference to one its residents and wonderful author Deborah Levy, whom I had the luck of meeting twice, randomly, at the restaurant where I work. Last year, the second lyric line of the track, inspired by one of her living autobiographies 'The Cost of Living', became reality: When "there's a tree growing out of a sinkhole on Hornsey Lane" was originally an observation captured on video years ago, this lyrical metaphor transposed into unintentional manifestation. I now live in a little music studio on that same lane, not far from its forgotten sinkhole, stepping into what Levy might, hopefully, have meant by such life worth living."
Bob Braun has performed in London and internationally at venues including The Albany in Deptford for Unravel no. 3, and Werk 21 at Dynamo, Zurich for Saturate. He has headlined venues such as The Amersham in New Cross, and The Biddle Bros in Clapton, presented by Alternatíva and Sad House Daddy. His track The Inventor has been remixed by South London based multidisciplinary artist and producer Massi NPL. In June 2025, Bob recorded a live version of his single Jessie Jane at Abney Park Cemetery in North London, the original place of inspiration for the song, with Amy Langley (ELO, Shygirl, Lily Allen) on the cello and Daniel Glenn Padgett on sound and photography. In on-stage performance, his live shows range from tight 30-minute sets, up to full hour long shows. For bookings and other enquiries, please find contact email here.
