Vasser - "Little Things"
Vasser has premiered new single 'Little Things' , the second to be taken from his forthcoming debut EP, 'A Telling End' (which also features acclaimed recent track 'To The Wolves' ). This follows Vasser's hotly-tipped debut 'Whatever You Want/Retract', and support across Spotify (where he is approaching 2 million plays), BBC Introducing, Radio 1, 1Xtra and Hype Machine. Look out for further details on 'A Telling End' in the coming weeks.
Effortlessly blending organic, acoustic textures and atmospheric electronics, 'Little Things' details the minutiae of a relationship which is slowly but surely dying out. It's another confessional but cooly-controlled step forward from Vasser, a still-just-18-year-old singer and producer hard at work on his craft. "Little Things is the first track I've done which really centred around the writing process," says Vasser. "The track began with the lyrics about the relationship which the majority of the EP is based on, and the production suited the vocals instead of the other way round."
'A Telling End' captures that confusion and possible chaos in a transitional time for Vasser (and his peers). Half German, half British, and born to an inherently creative household - his mother is an oil painter - the family's sleepy-commuter town in Kent nonetheless offered little musical evidence of the sort of beat-makers Vasser found himself continually drawn to (such as Francis & The Lights or Jon Hopkins). He started writing songs in earnest around his final exams, unsure of what lay ahead but keen to follow an artistic instinct first hinted at aged 9, when he started playing Jazz with some like-minded school friends. And so beginning with 'Whatever You Want', Vasser simply did it all himself: lyrically channeling an uncertainty over what lay ahead (in your career, and your romantic life) into textured electronic pop.