BIOGRAPHY
Lamplight is the solo project of Ian Hatcher-Williams, a musician splitting time between Brooklyn and Roanoke, Virginia. Raised in a New Age community in the southwest part of the state, he studied art and design before co-founding a digital agency in New York, a career that eventually gave way to a return to rural Virginia and to music. Recorded with Lightning Bug's Kevin Copeland, Lamplight's self-titled debut arrived on Western Vinyl in March 2024, pairing folk-rock and soft-rock textures with alt-country and psychedelic inflections. Stereogum described lead single "House Rules" as a soft and lush piece of indie-folk, and the record also yielded the single "Call Your Mom." A follow-up, Lick The Spoon, Let It Soften, billed by the band as creek-steeped folk, was announced by Stereogum alongside the track "Clover" ahead of its October release.