Medium Build is the indie folk and indie pop project of Nick Carpenter, based in Anchorage, Alaska and now signed to Sub Pop. Country (2022) is the record that earned the critical attention — warm folk songwriting about relationships and personal experience — and the natural first listen. Shop Medium Build vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Medium Build is the recording project of Nick Carpenter, based in Anchorage, Alaska. He launched the project in the late 2010s with self-released material and has been positioned in the contemporary indie folk and indie pop scene. His 2022 LP Country received critical attention.
Medium Build's sound combines indie folk, indie pop, alternative folk, country pop, and singer-songwriter with Carpenter's distinctive vocal delivery and lyrical content addressing relationships and personal experience drawing on folk songwriting traditions.
Sub Pop, Slow Play, and Terrible Records pressings of the Medium Build catalog have been issued in color variant editions.
Listeners new to Medium Build typically start with Country (2022).
