Midnight In A Perfect World: Ryan Hemsworth
Canadian artist
Ryan Hemsworth is a chameleonic figure in the music world, equally adept at producing club bangers, emotional ballads, and charming indie folk music. Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ryan emerged as an innovative producer in the early 2010s with a unique cinematic sound that blurred the boundaries between hip-hop, electronic, R&B, and progressive club styles. His first proper solo album
Guilt Trips came out in 2013 and won the Juno Award the following year for Electronic Album Of The Year. Since then he s gone on to release two additional albums, numerous EPs and mixtapes, and he s also consistently showcased his infectious collaborative spirit, producing tracks for a wide array of artists ranging from Mitski to E-40, and launching his own label Secret Songs to provide a platform for emerging new artists. Ryan continued to expand his resume in 2020 with his signing to beloved indie label Saddle Creek Records for
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It’s freezing in Ontario. Or so says Canadian producer
Ryan Hemsworth, who was working out of an attic in the port city of Hamilton last month when I spoke to him. It’s interesting thinking of a superstar producer who’s graced countless festival stages to hoards of dancing fans being relegated to an attic in an obscure (at least, to me) Canadian city that is definitely not named after the man for whom the successful musical is based on. But it’s quarantine and, in some ways, we’re all stuck in a freezing attic (at least mentally).