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Nobody makes music quite like Dylan Cartlidge. The Redcar-raised singer, rapper, and multi-instrumentalist blends soul, hip-hop, and leftfield pop with the kind of boundless, big-hearted energy seamlessly. The New York Times likened him to a young Beck, and NME called his sound "a Beastie Boys record being warped in a microwave powered by sheer positivity." His 2021 debut Hope Above Adversity earned him a feature on Black Thought and Danger Mouse's Cheat Codes, stages at Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds, and a spot on NPR's World Café 30 Under 30.
His new music goes somewhere deeper. Recording in Bristol and LA with Neal Pogue, Eg White, and Bad Sounds, Cartlidge has spent the years since his debut digging into the parts of himself he previously kept at arm's length, childhood trauma, foster care, the slow work of building a life that feels secure, and letting that weight give the euphoria somewhere to come from. Latest single "Crazy World" finds him holding onto human connection as the one constant worth trusting.