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At 14, he picked up his mother’s classical, nylon-string guitar.
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“I think I was bored,” Young tells EW with a laugh.
But after finishing his first full tracks, he was hooked.
“It really started coming together,” he recalls.
“That happened so fast,” Young recalls of the writing for that track.
“It was so natural and free.”
Why They Rule: Young took years to makeFeel Something which was what he intended.
Rather than recruit outside producers and writers, he holed up at home and recordedSomethinglargely on his own.
“I wanted to see, like, Can I do it?'”
he says of his insular process.
“The hardest part was expecting a lot out of myself,” Young admits.
“Like, I’m not going to cut myself any slack.
butSomethings swirling, smoothed-out beats, confirm Young’s creative method worked.
This fall, he’ll join Oh Wonder on their tour.
“I get to put a face to those numbers and have a personal experience with that.
It’s mind-blowing.”
