The last time Kid Brunswick spoke to Kerrang!, in September 2021, he said the hardest thing he had been through was addiction. He didn’t know what was round the corner. Things were good back then – great, even. He’d just released his debut mixtape, XFOREVER, which he’d worked on with one of his ultimate heroes, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. A tour supporting Don Broco, which would take him to the illustrious stage of London’s O2 Academy Brixton, was just a couple of months away. His music was gracing radio playlists and even getting airplay in America. “It really felt like my life had peaked,” he says. Then, for 18 months, there was silence. It shouldn’t have been that way – the artist, whose real name is Harry James, had plenty of music that he was waiting to release. ...