BØRNS

Michigan-born multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Garrett Borns records under the moniker BØRNS, shaping expansive, emotionally direct electropop that shifts between ethereal textures and rhythmic grooves while centering his soaring falsetto and drawing subtle influence from glam and folk traditions. Mainstream breakthrough arrived in 2015 via the platinum-certified single “Electric Love,” featured on his first full-length release, Dopamine. Momentum built further with the January 2018 arrival of Blue Madonna, which contained a featured turn from Lana Del Rey, and continued with the 2025 album Honeybee, a utopian electro-glam-pop statement.

Raised along Michigan’s Great Lakes shoreline in Grand Haven, BØRNS trained at the Interlochen Center for the Arts through Grand Rapids Community College and quickly became a regular presence on the regional circuit. Following a short period in New York City, he moved to Los Angeles and settled into a self-described “treetop sanctuary” on the city’s outskirts, where he refined material that became his debut Interscope EP, Candy. Anchored by the swirling, saccharine single “10,000 Emerald Pools,” the four-track set appeared in November 2014. After extensive road work that included support slots alongside Bleachers and Charli XCX, BØRNS issued his debut LP, Dopamine, on Interscope in late 2015; the album peaked at number two on both the Alternative and Top Rock charts. That same year he joined French pop artist Petite Meller for a reinterpretation of the Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning.” Three new tracks—“Faded Heart,” “Sweet Dreams,” and “God Save Our Young Blood” featuring Lana Del Rey—surfaced in 2017 ahead of the January 2018 release of Blue Madonna. Following a brief absence, BØRNS returned in 2023 with the EP Suddenly, whose title track achieved notable streaming success, then delivered the buoyant, retro psych-pop-leaning Honeybee EP in 2025.