When rules break, lanes open up for disruption. Breland most definitely traffics in a lane of his own. The New Jersey-born and Atlanta-based singer, songwriter, and producer eludes genre distinctions and bucks boundaries with a hypnotic hybrid of country and trap highlighted by flashes of R&B soul and gospel-size vocal acrobatics. After penning bangers for everyone from Elhae to YK Osiris behind-the-scenes, he rewrites the rulebook from scratch as a solo artist.