Lloyd Wayne (FKA Compton White) today announces his debut EP ‘Bird Beyond’, as well as sharing its title track. Wayne recently returned from an extended hiatus with ‘Saviour’ – a single that won support from publications like The Fader, The Line Of Best Fit and DIY.
Lloyd Wayne’s nomadic Romany Gypsy upbringing spent traveling with his fairground-running showman family between London, South England, and the Isle of Wight gave him boundless freedom to get into scrapes, make mistakes and generally figure life out for himself. With his parents occupied running the candy floss kiosks and rides, Wayne and his brother Reed could roam free. Since receiving critical acclaim under his Compton White moniker, he has been writing with Mura Masa and Westerman + this newly announced EP represents music released for the first time under his own name.
On the new single, Lloyd Wayne says “Bird Beyond was the first track on the project to come together. My little brother Reed (with whom I originally started making beats in 2010) was up in Feltham and I showed him the chords and a top-line idea and it sparked. We kept stoking the thing for 2 days. I wanted it to sound naive and raw and keeping it messy seemed to support that. The lyric was an attempt to emulate the feeling we had as kids overhearing the grownups tell crazy tales from the our Traveller heritage. Epic tragedies from a dead age. It’s one of those rare songs that just sort of happened.”
In Bird Beyond, Wayne blends the weird, the crude and the mischievous with gorgeous production. The result: an extraordinary soundscape that’s so poppy you’re sure you’ve heard it before, and yet so strangely idiosyncratic you can’t stop listening.
1. Saviour
2. How True
3. Model Village Loop
4. Bird Beyond
5. Creature
Lloyd Wayne // Bird Beyond // March 13th
Photo credit – Valentin Meneveau