Gus Dapperton

Born Brendan Patrick Rice and from Warwick, New York, Gus Dapperton has since the mid-2010s developed an independent pop with synth-pop and bedroom-pop contours, built around smooth melodies, softly nonchalant vocals and arrangements that blend guitars, keyboards and light electronic textures. After the first tracks released in 2016, he drew attention with the EPs Yellow and Such in 2017 and You Think You’re a Comic! in 2018, before moving to the album format with Where Polly People Go to Read in 2019. Dapperton sharpens an introspective pop writing, between offbeat romance and a sense of the chorus. Parallel to his own releases, he appeared the same year on 'Supalonely' by Benee, a collaboration that significantly broadened his audience and placed him in an international indie-pop scene. His second album, Orca, released in 2020, marked a darker tone, with a focus on inner tensions and a more expansive production. After several collaborations in the early 2020s, Gus Dapperton released Henge in 2023, a more conceptual record tied to New York, where his taste for a stylized melodic pop takes a more produced form. Very involved in his visual universe, Dapperton also directs part of his videos, extending in image a singular and coherent aesthetic.