Will Stratton

Known for his intimate, intricate approach, singer/songwriter and guitarist Will Stratton is a self-professed disciple of Nick Drake. Sometimes recording solo but more often incorporating guests on accompaniment like strings, pedal steel, and a light rhythm section on his albums, he tracked his full-length debut, 2007's What the Night Said, with collaborators at the age of 18. Highlights of subsequent releases included 2012's Post-Empire and 2017's Rosewood Almanac. Stratton's seventh album, The Changing Wilderness, saw him shift focus from inward-looking to outward-examining in 2021, an approach he stuck with for the first-person character sketches that populated 2025's Points of Origin.