Cavetown
Depuis l’âge de 14 ans, Cavetown crée des chansons auto-produites à la fois très personnelles et touchées par une imagination décalée.
Aujourd’hui âgé de 24 ans, l’artiste basé à Cambridge et connu sous le nom de Robin Skinner s’est imposé comme l’une des voix très importante de la scène DIY bedroom pop. Il y est parvenu sans tube viral ni gadget facile, mais plutôt avec un cœur pur, en remplissant sa chaîne YouTube et son Bandcamp d’un mélange de reprises et de musique originale qu’il a écrites et auto-enregistrées dans sa chambre.
Avec la sortie de son album Lemon Boy en 2018, la personnalité discrète mais captivante de Skinner a envahi internet, le catapultant comme collaborateur privilégié des stars de la bedroom pop que sont mxmtoon, Chloe Moriondo et Tessa Violet. Il a également fait salle comble dans de grandes salles aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni et s’est produit sur la scène de grands festivals comme Lollapalooza et Reading & Leeds.
English
Since the age of 14, Cavetown has created self-produced songs both intensely diaristic and touched with offbeat imagination. Now 22, the Cambridge-based artist otherwise known as Robin Skinner has emerged as one of the preeminent voices in the DIY bedroom pop scene, with more than 2.3 billion global streams to date, including 8.4 million monthly Spotify listeners and 1.9 million YouTube subscribers. He did so without a viral hit or easy gimmicks, but rather pure heart, filling his YouTube channel and Bandcamp with a mix of covers and original music he wrote and self-recorded in his bedroom.
With the release of his 2018 breakthrough album Lemon Boy, Skinner’s unassuming yet captivating personality took the internet by storm, catapulting him become a go-to collaborator for bedroom pop mainstays mxmtoon, Chloe Moriondo, and Tessa Violet, plus selling out major venues across the U.S. and U.K. as well as taking the stage at leading festivals like Lollapalooza and Reading & Leeds.
In 2020, he unveiled his major label debut album, SLEEPYHEAD, followed by his most critically-acclaimed EP to date, Man’s Best Friend, which earned global praise from the likes of The New York Times, The FADER, Rolling Stone, Billboard, CLASH Magazine, and many more upon its release earlier this year.