Biography
Born in Aurora, Illinois, and steeped from childhood in a household centered on music, Dylan Gardner cultivated an early devotion to meticulous pop songwriting as a multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter. The offspring of a bassist who owned a record store, he absorbed the work of the Beatles, Harry Nilsson, the Zombies, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan while still very young. Jimmy Page fueled his attachment to guitar, and Ben Folds prompted his determination to master piano; identifying himself as a “music nerd,” he began composing and recording material in his early teens. After his family relocated to Arizona, he built a bedroom studio and issued his first EP, Morning Stories, in 2012. Warner Bros. signed him in 2014 when he was 17, resulting in the release of his well-regarded debut album, Adventures in Real Time. He sustained that momentum with the 2016 single “Sign Language,” then followed it in 2017 with “Hit Me with the Lights Out” and “Can't Stop Thinking.”
Albums
Singles
