‘Calico’ paints a sonic romance between Ryan Beatty and collaborator, Ethan Gruska.

About half-way through Brockhampton’s ‘Saturation III’, you’ll hear the voice of a twenty-year-old Ryan Beatty singing the hook on ‘BLEACH’; a track that shook the walls of nearly every house party I went to in 2017. Painfully unaware that Beatty’s career would run parallel with my music taste for the six years to follow, I continued to admire him from a distance.