Leach

A Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter with a penchant for disarming melodies and hypnotic electronic arrangements, Stuart Leach’s earnest lyricism, aching falsetto, and sonic orchestration give his music an unorthodox twist in a genre that sometimes sacrifices intimacy at the altar of cool.


Leach was born in 1993 in Dallas, Texas, attending an all-boys Catholic school where everyone was addressed by their last names. He began writing and performing piano pieces as early as age 11, eventually releasing them as 2011’s The Diving Bell. By the end of middle school, he was performing around the metroplex in the violin driven pop quartet Seastroke, who by their junior year of high school had opened for their idols Maps & Atlases and been featured on Coldplay's homepage.


By 2012 at Bard College in upstate New York, Leach had turned his solo career towards electronic music, which lent itself to being quietly recorded in a dorm-room. After an initial creative drought, a broken engagement left Leach with plenty to write about. He processed this grief in 2014’s Roman Candles, featuring classmate Soubrette's voice on the eponymous track. "Little Taste of Heaven" would achieve viral fame years later, spreading Leach’s music to a global audience.


His recently released single Will We Just Stay Alive explores the tension between aloneness and solidarity that the pandemic brought about.