Cavetown
Cavetown | |
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 Cavetown performing in 2024 | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | brother[1][2] |
| Born | 15 December 1998 Oxford, England |
| Origin | Cambridge, England[3] |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
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| Website | cave |
Robin Daniel Skinner, also called Cavetown, is an English singer and songwriter. His [a] music has indie pop, bedroom pop, and indie rock parts.
As of March 2024, he had 6.6 million listeners on Spotify. His YouTube channel had 2.23 million subscribers as of June 2024.[12] Skinner released his fifth studio album, Worm Food, in November 2022.
Early life
[change | change source]Skinner was born in Oxford, England, on 15 December 1998.[3][13] His interest in music was caused by his father, David Skinner, a musicologist and choir leader, who taught him how to play the acoustic guitar at the age of eight.[14][15] His mother is a Baroque flute player and music teacher. He was raised in Cambridge and attended Parkside Community College from 2010 to 2015 and Hills Road Sixth Form College until 2017.[16]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Music | brother". Bandcamp. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "albums – cavetown". Archived from the original on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020 – via Reddit.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Monger, Timothy. "Cavetown | Biography & History". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Cavetown's "Sweet Tooth" Will Leave You Craving More". Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2020 – via veniceoarsman.
The Indie rock/indie pop artist Robin Daniel Skinner, more commonly known as Cavetown, incorporates elements of low-fi and indie folk music into his bedroom pop-style music.
- ↑ Perlow, Lexie (19 April 2018). "Cavetown Debuts with 'Lemon Boy'". The Hill News. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "My Bedroom Studio". cavetown. 13 May 2018. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2020 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Cavetown Uses a Kazoo". cavetown. 15 March 2018. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Cavetown Performs "Banana Bread" | Fender Artist Check-Ins | Fender". September 2020. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Cavetown – Juliet (Live)". YouTube. 16 December 2018. Event occurs at 3:50. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ↑ "Cavetown". Sire Records. 6 March 2019. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ↑ "Dear. – Cavetown | Release Credits". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ↑ "cavetown". YouTube. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ↑ Ginsberg, Gab (17 January 2020). "Welcome to Cavetown's World, A Place That Feels Like Home". Billboard. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ↑ Hughel, Phoebe (3 April 2019). "Cavetown (Robin Skinner)". The Seymour Owl. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ↑ "Cavetown". Cambridge Live. 22 November 2018. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ↑ "About – Cavetown". Cavetown Official Website. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ Robin uses he/him and they/them pronouns. Because we don't want to mix up pronouns for reasons of consistency, this article uses he/him pronouns.