Let’s start at the beginning. You’ve been releasing for almost two years now. How did you get into production and songwriting?
I learned piano and drums when I was a kid, and coming up with something new and improvising was always more gratifying than learning whatever piece my teacher had given me. I guess that developed into songwriting the older I got. As for production, like most home-grown producers and artists, I started playing around with GarageBand and a cracked version of Logic when I was maybe 14 and just kept making stuff.
Which part of the music creation process do you enjoy the most?
It used to be experimenting with production, but now, I’m really loving writing lyrics before anything else.
You’ve referred to your sound as “George Michael made a song with SOPHIE”. Where do you draw inspiration from?
Well, those are definitely two of the biggest! It used to be that my main inspirations were the likes of James Blake, Caribou, and Jamie xx. That was definitely on more of a sonic level, at least when I first started producing. Now I’ve found my feet a bit more with what my sound is; I look to artists like George and SOPHIE for the way they approached making music. Pushing boundaries or weaving niche and vulnerable feelings into huge pop songs; never missing out on a chance to be shocking.
