Words: Linn Branson
Merseyside-based electronic producer Bill Nickson is another of those budding musicians who have started off their careers in bedroom recording.
Eighteen-year-old Bill has spent this past summer working on a collection of songs recorded in his bedroom studio (although from what he says, he has been making music of one sort or another since around the age of ten) that he is putting out under the moniker of Wnter. Should his sound strike a note of familiarity it may be that you have heard one of the two electronic EPs he has previously put out under the name Lo-Fye.
Deriving inspiration from the likes of Real Estate, DIIV, Mac DeMarco, and Brian Wilson, you can hear the first track Wnter has uploaded, 'Falls', below. Programmed keyboards open the song to a chiming, ethereal effect, followed by beats coming in and then a distant, lo-fi echo-filled vocal that plays out to a futuristic styled close.
As for the name? Lo-Fye we can more or less understand, given the nature of his sound, but 'Wnter'? "Wnter was chosen because much of my music's sound and style is inspired by the sounds of that season," he tells us. "The reverby guitars remind me of that time of year especially, and it's something I try to capture in my tracks. As for the spelling, I always found it cool how artists such as The Weeknd and Alvvays managed to make simple and very common words sound unique to them just by altering the spelling. So that's what I did with mine, and I liked it!"
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