With a spoken-word style that throws you right back to George the Poet’s 2014 LP, The Chicken & The Egg, the seminal single Pink Toothbrush by Breakup Studios pulls you into the intricate details of heartbreak, where the most ordinary mementoes start to mean more than they ever feasibly should.
The track unfurls as a synergic synthesis of grime, EDM and RnB, holding candles to a few contemporaries while still moving with the chameleonic electricity that has become synonymous with Breakup Studios. Across the release, the voice spirals inward with enough emotional precision to make a discarded bathroom object feel like the last sacred artefact of a collapsed love story. It almost makes you want to become the person who accidentally left their toothbrush behind, just to know you hold so much meaning
Written by James as part of the 10-track concept EP Closure Not Included, Pink Toothbrush centres on a man who clears away every trace of his ex yet cannot throw away the one object that keeps grief breathing in the room. Romance can’t be dead, not while someone is writing an entire concept EP about an ex’s pink toothbrush.
Pink Toothbrush is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast