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Calvin LeCompte
Calvin LeCompte (born 1986, Boston Massachusetts) is an American recording artist based in New York City who's music draws heavily on a 1960's - 1970's approach to the love_song. LeCompte’s compositions touch on themes of aspiration and existential angst with an unfiltered vulnerability that has been praised for being “as impulsive as everything else LeCompte does. ” Focusing on the gritty underbelly of the home-recorded pop music, LeCompte’s music can be considered a distillation of the sounds and attitudes only intimated on analogue records of the past. His singular take on the pop song has not gone unnoticed, and he has received favorable mentions in Sex Magazine and Purple Fashion, among other publications.

The music video for “The Elmira Property Tax,” the single from LeCompte’s debut, depicts the artist as a despondent outsider inhabiting an isolated trailer park. LeCompte’s lyrics often invoke similar themes of rugged independence, paying homage to outsider lifestyles that exist at the margin of mainstream America. Following this artistic trajectory, his NTS Radio show, The Uline Catalog, plays mostly obscure private press records.

Discography Zagat Rated (2016)