{"id":2256751,"date":"2026-01-29T18:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2256751"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:57:12","slug":"the-boy-who-cried-terrified-ranking-all-the-tracks-on-fakeminks-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-boy-who-cried-terrified-ranking-all-the-tracks-on-fakeminks-new-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy who cried Terrified: Ranking all the tracks on fakemink\u2019s new EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n
\n

In April 2024, Vincenzo Camille rebranded from 9090gate to\u00a0fakemink<\/a>. Since then, the Essex-born rapper-producer has released around 100 singles, become the breakout star of the UK Ug movement<\/a>, and topped Dazed\u2019s best tracks of 2025 list<\/a>. So despite the mounting anticipation for his first project in almost two years, fakemink\u2019s new seven-track EP, The Boy Who Cried Terrified<\/em>, arrived in characteristically unorthodox fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, mink announced his sophomore album, Terrified<\/em>, in late December. Then, last week, he revealed it would become both an EP and a full album, setting the EP\u2019s release date for January 30. But just as everything seemed locked in, 16-year-old influencer CTI claimed he\u2019d personally called fakemink to bring the EP forward to 12 a.m. today (January 29), prompting pretty much every UK underground fan page to go live in anticipation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The music had to be good to justify this drama \u2013 and, thankfully, it was. <\/span>The Boy who cried Terrified <\/span><\/em>lands amid swirling speculation as to whether mink\u2019s new releases would sit closer to his lo-fi 2023 debut album, <\/span>London\u2019s Saviour<\/span><\/em>, or the more hectic singles he\u2019s released since. It seems that the answer is a bit of both, plus more. There are hints of \u201cCelebrity Deathmatch\u201d\u2019s melancholy in \u201cBlow the Speaker\u201d\u2019s wistful melodies, and \u201cEaster Pink\u201d\u2019s cluttered chaos in tracks like \u201cDumb\u201d, as well as an entirely new foray into singing on \u201cMr Chow\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And while the EP\u2019s rollout might have been slightly uncoordinated, this is exactly what you would expect from the forerunner of the UK Ug scene. Collectively, artists like EsDeeKid, Feng and Zukovstheworld take foregoing musical conventions as their defining trait: genres are collapsed into a pastiche of browser-based bookmarks, mixes are shoddy and muddied by distortion, and all of this is on full display on <\/span>The Boy who cried Terrified<\/span><\/em>. On it, fakemink shows no qualms transplanting samples from beloved UK dubstep producer Burial and ambient guitarist Flawed Mangoes into his new world of jerk percussion and heady rap lyrics, but it results in tracks that are both pensive and overwhelming. It\u2019s an impressive feat.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Below, we rank our favourite tracks on the project, from worst to best (they\u2019re all good though).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n