Zach Templar

Zach Templar makes ambitious indie rock with a scrappy edge. It’s the sort of music that makes tiny moments feel enormous and is delivered with so much honesty, you feel like you’re in the room with the 18-year-old as he pours his guts out.

Raised on a diet of Childish Gambino, Frank Ocean and Omar Apollo, Zach Templar’s music is a “colourful mesh” of everything he loves. Some songs are pretty, stripped back confessionals, others are distorted and melancholic or offer woozy, defiant hope. “I try not to create a box for myself,” he explains, with a heart-first approach to everything he does. “They’re all a vibe though.”

Zach brings his debut EP to Nottingham this autumn.