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Medium Build

last updated 2026-09-11 11:26

Medium Build

Plays on LTZ: 15 across 14 shows (2024-04-25, 2024-06-06, 2024-08-29, 2024-10-10, 2024-11-21, 2024-12-12, 2025-01-09, 2025-04-03, 2025-06-11, 2025-11-06, 2026-04-02, 2026-04-23…)

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05. Medium Build — J&L

Medium Build is the project of Nick Carpenter. Indie folk with a confessional, unguarded quality — he writes about the things most people think but don't say. From takeaways (2025). He appeared on the 9th April show with fat broke loser.

Sits between Kevin Morby and Family Stereo as the emotional centre of the second segment.

Medium Build — fat broke loser

Played: 2026-04-09 (Set 2 — Quiet into weight)

Medium Build is the project of Nick Carpenter — indie folk with a confessional, unguarded quality. 'fat broke loser' is a title that tells you exactly what you're in for, then surprises with how much warmth it contains.

Medium Build — Armor

Played: 2026-07-02 (Segment 2 — Indie open) (new release)

Nick Carpenter, a queer singer-songwriter who became a hometown hero in Anchorage, Alaska before moving to Nashville and signing to Island. Warm, confessional indie-folk-rock in the Zach Bryan-adjacent lane he's spent interviews resisting. Sets a grounded, human tone after the psych opener.

Medium Build — It's Not Easy (Falling In Love)

Played: 2026-09-10 (Daily Music Report)

Medium Build is the project of Nick Carpenter, a singer-songwriter raised in Georgia who started the project in Anchorage, Alaska, and is now based in Nashville; signed to slowplay/Island Records. "It's Not Easy (Falling In Love)" (2:26) is track 6 on King of Having Fun, released 4 September 2026 on slowplay/Island Records. Carpenter wrote the song in the room with Julian Bunetta — the songwriter/producer behind One Direction's "Night Changes" and Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso": "I got in the room with Julian Bunetta who had written so many of my favorite pop..." The album was announced 26 June 2026 by Universal Music Canada and runs 14 songs, 40 minutes. Carpenter moved back to Nashville in 2023, signing with slowplay/Island. Reviewers frame the album around Carpenter's recovery and rebuilding.

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