When you meet Nick Carpenter (aka Medium Build) he will probably make you laugh… and then make you think.


Carpenter’s is a mind hungry for beauty, for music, for understanding; fiercely curious, determined, but importantly never above laughing at himself. It’s that lack of self-seriousness which gives his songs a uniform earnestness, the freedom to speak in new styles, to try on a cast of costumes, vary the art of the telling without sacrificing the story.


His music reports from the borders of the absurd with humor and grace — with allowance for, of all things, fun — unafraid of ugliness but always begging the merit of levity. May you enjoy the talent of one of the most gifted, wisest fools I know, as I have.

-Julien Baker