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Today, Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Niall Mutter is sharing his first new music of the new year courtesy of Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys. “I Wonder” comes from “the mystery that can be in someone else’s head and living in the ambiguity of it,” says Mutter. “It’s a calling for lighter moods and, in the moment it was written, was really premised on offering support to someone special. As the title eludes to, we are all inevitably left wondering what that someone is thinking."
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Niall has spent most of his life oscillating between the seasons, tree planting in the Canadian bush in the summer and escaping to the mountains out West for the winter. When a friend invited him out to Quebec for a couple weeks, he pulled into Montreal’s tightly knit music community and never left. Couch surfing in the middle of a raging pandemic gave him the instability and dishevelled edge he needed to bring his songwriting hiatus to an end, finishing and releasing his first single ‘You’ — a disco-shimmered summer love song that was immediately well received.
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His country roots inspire his minimalist production style and narrative lyricism, while his desire for transience adds an almost undetectable sentiment to his dreamy beached-out vocals. He brings a floaty dance trance to his states of confusion, teasing out his lover’s quarrels with a sonic harmony, sculpting the inbetween as a comfortable resting space for himself, often rocking unsureness like a trusted pair of boots.