Oregon's Nick Gamer writes dark, cinematic Americana songs that sound equally at home in the western cosmos of Lucinda Williams and The Byrd's Sweetheart of the Rodeo. A former guitarist for Japanese Breakfast and frontman of Le Rev, Gamer has traded indie pop hooks for the high lonesome wail of the pedal steel. His songs are a paean to the ashes of youth and the grim smile of moving on, conjuring the times feelings of isolation and dark nostalgic yearning without ever addressing the headlines directly. In 2022 Gamer released his debut solo album, Suburban Cowboy, where honky-tonks, midnight angels, truck stops and bourbon loom large. His sophomore full-length, Oregoner, comes out September 6.