Medium Build

One Liner:  New album is nice Americana, old stuff is less interesting bedroom pop indie

Wikipedia Genre: Singer/songwriter (I'd also say bedroom pop indie)

Home: Anchorage (via Atlanta and Nashville)

Poster Position: 9
Both Weekends.
Sunday at 3:25.

Miller Lite Stage.

Thoughts: His voice is reminding me of someone, maybe Robert Ellis, maybe Ruston Kelly?  I really like the band name, although it definitely had me in the mood for some rock and roll and not this style of bedroom, DIY indie.

Nicholas Carpenter was raised in Georgia and played music in his church before moving to Nashville to study songwriting at Middle Tennessee State.  While there, he had a band called Little Moses and wrote their songs.  After college, he moved to Anchorage, of all places, and began performing as Medium Build.  He has toured with a number of good other artists - Tyler Childers, Lewis Capaldi, and others.  Five albums - 2016's Falling Apart, 2018's softboy, 2018's roughboy, 2019's Wild, and 2024's Country.  His top streamer comes from the Wild album - "Be Your Boy," with 6.4 million streams.

I need to figure out how to film my dog lunging up to lick my camera.  Maybe a cheese stick would do it.  Dogs look so loveable when they do that.  Song is fine - nothing especially sticky there that will keep this one in my mind or future rotation.  His older stuff sticks more to that style - synths and machines doing a lot of the work under his vocals.  But on the new disc, "Crying Over U" with 3 million streams, has a better sound for me - more of an indie singer/songwriter laying down something real.

I like the lushness of that sound and the lyrics are solid as well.  I love the image of him winning a stereo with a raffle that his dad co-opts to blast while they clean the house on weekends.  Definitely like the new album more than the older stuff, although it goes into some drum machine stuff as well that I don't like as much.  As of now, this would likely be my choice during this hour, but I've never heard of the other artists in this spot.  We'll see.