Arts & Culture

TEST SPIN: BØRNS — Dopamine

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By JESSIE WEBER

If you try to find information on Garrett Borns, the 23-year-old emerging indie rock prodigy from Michigan, you won’t find much. And if you’ve listened to his single “Electric Love,” you might be surprised to discover that his love used to be almost exclusively acoustic. In 2012, before he took on the stage name BØRNS, he released an E.P. under his given name, titled A Dream Between. Throughout, he sounds more or less like a fourth Hanson brother who was just too young to sing along during their prime. This might be why each of the E.P.’s songs only have a few hundred YouTube hits.