WATCH / SHARE “MAYBE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “MAYBE” HERE

PASS ME BY SET FOR RELEASE MARCH 11, 2022 VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR / NICE GUYS

Photo Credit : Michael Sayegh // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Niall Mutter is today announcing his upcoming EP, Pass Me By, set for release on March 11, 2022 courtesy of Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys. Written over the course of a year, Mutter says “I had moved to Montréal on a whim, couch surfing between friends and a new lover. The album is about finding levity in a period of transition. It’s about pain and self assessment, and submitting to things being a bit wacky and out of my control.”

Today he shares another track from EP, “Maybe”, which “comes from the overwhelming feeling change can bring,” says Mutter. “I had just moved to Montréal and a lot of new things were happening in my life. I found myself having one foot caught in the past and the other in the future. I wrote this song from a place of acceptance, being ok with the duality of the two, and finding peace somewhere in between."

WATCH / SHARE “MAYBE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “MAYBE” HERE

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 disheveled 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.

LISTEN / BUY / STREAM “I WONDER” HERE

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.