Artist Presale: 6/9 at 10am – 6/11 at 10pm
Public on sale: 6/12 at 10am

Sawyer Hill

Sawyer Hill began playing bars as a teenager, sneaking through the back door so he wouldn’t be carded by bouncers. Eventually, he’d graduate to national stages, thanks in large part to his breakthrough single “Look at the Time.” He has since racked up over 130 million streams and nearly a quarter billion video views, and left Arkansas for the first time to bring his music across the United States and Europe. Those gigs, including sold out stops at LA's Troubadour and NYC's Bowery Ballroom, and an extensive tour supporting Yungblud informed the way his new LP, Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy, sounds. He was also moved by a revelation he wasn’t expecting: Every time he left Arkansas for a California writing session or string of tour dates, he found himself longing for home. To hone in on the sonic and lyrical identity of the album, Hill worked with a few different collaborators throughout Los Angeles, like Mike Crossey [The 1975, Arctic Monkeys], Chris Greatti [Poppy, Yungblud], and Ryan Linville [Olivia Rodrigo, Dermot Kennedy]. He quickly began to triangulate the philosophy of the record, using these peers and role models as sounding boards. It’s part of the reason Hill sounds more assured than ever on the new album. With Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy, Sawyer Hill wants to be that guiding presence that his favorite rockstars were for him when he was sitting in his childhood bedroom, teaching himself chords. He wants to be a voice for the loners and the doubters, the Southern kid who doesn’t understand why he’s meant to shut up about his feelings.

Artist Presale: 1/15 @ 10am
Public on Sale: 1/17 @ 10am

Sawyer Hill

When Sawyer Hill was 14, his Pentecostal parents made an unexpected concession: They signed a notarized affidavit that allowed him to go to bars, so long as he was playing music and not drinking. For the better part of a decade, that was his life’s driver, gigging in the haunts and dives of greater Northwest Arkansas, often for audiences of a few dozen. But in 2022, “Look at the Time”—a grungy rock hymn about the rock-hard bottom of a romance—exploded when someone posted a clip of it online. Less than two years later, in February 2024, the song topped Spotify’s Viral 50. The natural showman’s career has since ballooned, with a string of hit singles already generating 50 million streams and 120 million video views—all before he has released his debut EP, due in the Spring of 2025.

Indeed, the last two years and a string of subsequent singles have proven that “Look at the Time” was no fluke. Hill has an uncanny knack for theatrical melodies delivered with a blue-collar believability, the grand gestures of the rock he loves reimagined for the up-close-and-personal, sing-along throngs of small dives. “High on My Lows” is an honest and instantly memorable confession about trying to stay sane, even as you get wild with the world around you. The pensive but surging “Symphony” even uses music as a metaphor for deliverance, for being swept up by anything bigger than you while you still can. Hill looks at life’s hardest parts and finds a way to shape them into an inescapable tune, so that all those who have been there can unburden themselves by shouting along for a few minutes at a time.