#115 Nicky William - Bad

Summer has finally arrived, and with it, Swedish alt-folk/Americana artist Nicky William releases laid-back decadent pop-track Bad. It’s the first single from his upcoming EP, due to drop late summer 2021, and is the follow up to last year’s EP I Want To Feel It All.

While Nicky William appreciates and is inspired by older Americana and folk artists, he is drawn to the itchy and edgy outsiders, which leads to his music often being a reflection of both worlds. Influenced by artists such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Nick Cave, Nicky William released his debut album 2017, the melancholic alternative-folk record "Set your loved ones free, we have you surrounded".

Nicky says of the new single: ”My teenage years were not wild, there’s a certain immature jealousy that can sometimes wash over me whenever I’m listening to some acquaintance talk about their “wild years”. The song tells about the one time in my youth I tried to be “bad”."

Nicky's vision and ambition is to find new ways to make music and realize song ideas that do not feel obvious or simple. In his new material, he has taken out the turns and to some extent gone beyond the melancholy alternative-folk sphere for an experimental, ambitious sound and a complex songwriting that takes greater risks than before.

New single Bad is available from June 4 via Icons Creating Evil Art.