Tru:FREZ Delivers Epic Debut Album ‘Sesh Fiend Confession Tap’
There is something inherently revealing about an album called Sesh Fiend Confession Tape, and Tru:FRAZ embraces that idea completely on his debut. Across 16 tracks, he turns a chaotic period of his life into a body of work built around confession, vulnerability, humour and self-reflection.
The album draws from some difficult territory, including addiction, grief, relationships, self-destruction and mental battles. Yet Tru:FRAZ does not frame those experiences as a straightforward retrospective. Instead, the project captures the highs and lows, the serious moments and the ridiculous ones, allowing humour to exist alongside more painful subject matter.
At the centre of it all is the relationship between Fraser, Fraz and Frazzle. Fraser is described as the human underneath the story, Fraz as the artist who dissects the chaos, and Frazzle as the character who often creates it. That dynamic provides a personal framework for an album that is ultimately about trying to understand experiences after living through them.
Some of the project’s most significant moments are particularly personal. “Letter To My Soul” contains a final verse that Tru:FRAZ says genuinely gave him “goosebumps” while writing it. “Stress” is his own personal favourite, while “Where U Been?” represents an important early step as his first official single.
The album also carries the weight of personal history. Tru:FRAZ was born and raised in England before moving to New Zealand, partly to explore his father’s roots. His father died in a motorbike accident when he was seven, while the album is dedicated to Chloe, known to friends as Sploosh, whose influence helped spark his musical journey.
Those details give the album a broader emotional context. The stories are not isolated moments of chaos. They form part of a much longer personal journey.
By completing Sesh Fiend Confession Tape, Tru:FRAZ has taken a difficult chapter and turned it into something tangible. The album does not claim to have every answer. Instead, it documents the search for balance and leaves the door open for the next chapter.
Lucas Watson
Music journalist and cultural critic at MusicTimes.