Quite the contrast to the soulful cover that brought the artist to the fore. The sparse and pensive lo-fi record brings together heartworn vocals and pensive keys with brutal fragility. Now though, Rutter operates as a solo outlet after his past members left on Mormon missions and he drifted away from the religion, something which has been a driving force in the emotionally dense indie-pop.Ģ019’s debut album ‘Her And All My Friends’ tackles some of those feelings from that turbulent period head on, including his girlfriend moving to college and emotions of loss and struggle. Pre-viral fame, Ritt Momney was a modest Salt Lake City based indie project taking their name from a tongue-in-cheek spoonerism on Utah’s Republican Senator and former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a moniker which stuck after a throwaway suggestion from an old bandmate. The trend rapidly spread and his version now boasts a whopping fifty million listeners on Spotify. This particular viral surge came about when a user put the track over a makeup video on a TikTok, with a hastily done ten second makeup job transitioning into works of art that have had hours put into them. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a move born out of the bleak misery of lockdown, meant simply to offer an uplifting escape for himself and listeners, but it also became career defining moment for the Salt Lake City artist. In April Jack Rutter cut loose from his usual introspective indie with a, er, cover of Corine Bailey Rae’s, ‘Put Your Records On’.
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