Wilbur Soot

Most artists don’t build an audience of millions through Minecraft streams before they ever release a proper EP. But that’s the strange, inverted world of Wilbur Soot, whose solo work feels like a direct reaction to his own internet-scale fame. On his 2020 EP Your City Gave Me Asthma, he trades chaotic content creation for quiet, brutally honest indie folk that chronicles alienation and romantic collapse with a startlingly raw vocal delivery. While he fronts the more boisterous, full-band outfit Lovejoy, his solo recordings—like the breakout track “Since I Saw Vienna”—are where you find the unfiltered nerve. It’s the sound of logging off and facing the quiet.