Vinyl Williams, Laguna Largo, The Groovy Nobody

Vinyl WilliamsCelestial PopThe psychedelic pop explorer Vinyl Williams has a wide range of interests outside of music -- Egyptian BioGeometry and Russellian science, to name two -- that inform his dream-like, happily woozy songs and quietly epic albums. Often created by Williams alone using experimental methods of recording, his releases -- especially 2018's Opal, which was partly recorded on handheld cassette recorder and VHS camcorder and 2022's relatively straight-forward, song-based Cosmopolis -- maintained a steady course into the musical cosmos that saw the artist snapping up pieces of shoegaze, dream pop, soft rock, ambient music, and sunshine pop as he drifted past.Born Lionel Williams, the multi-media artist is the grandson of renowned film composer and son of drummer Mark Towner Williams, After a time spent disavowing music as a creative outlet, he began playing drums at the age of ten and soon wrote his first song. After a decade spent in Utah, where made their home base, Williams escaped his strict religious setting and moved back to his birth place of Los Angeles, where he enrolled in CalArts to study visual arts. He switched his main focus to music though, and in the spring of 2010 began working on what became his debut album, playing all of the instruments himself while building atmospheric and dream-like textures through multi-tracking.Youtube | Bandcamp | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Spotify