This story starts somewhere between Amsterdam and Paris in the van of Ilgen-Nur’s 2019 Power Nap Europe tour during which M.Byrd plays bass guitar in her live band.

Somewhere on the road he plays his song sketches to the rest of the band. Their reaction to his demos are the final push that was needed to get things rolling. They all agree – he needs to make his voice and his music , still in its very early stages, be heard. And so he does now: His first single is called „Mountain“, one of a collection of songs that he wrote traveling through Europe in the last few years. Iceland, France, Denmark: Waving reverb; stoic, laid-back drums by André Albrecht and floating choirs by Doreen Albrecht create a space in which Byrd’s voice moves in wishful, yet familiar warmth.

His music transports you to the cinematic world of Guadagigno’s „Call Me By Your Name“, reminds you of Tom Petty, Sufjan Stevens or Kurt Vile while his guitars explore Sonic Youth -esque dialogues of noise that eventually lead back to the reverberating melodies of The War on Drugs. The 25 year old’s songs shine with a self-understanding that can be rarely found at the beginning of a career – they put the listener into a road movie at the American west coast, taste of melancholic future and euphoric youth.

Listen the song here