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Bayonne

A performance pseudonym of experimental musician Roger Sellers, Bayonne incorporates voice, synths, looping, effects, acoustic percussion, and more into his ultra-layered, textured songs. After releasing a handful of albums under his own name in the early 2010s that explored an electro-acoustic avant-folk, Sellers started going by Bayonne for his more electronics-based work. His fourth LP, 2014's Primitives, marked the project's debut when it was reissued under the name in 2016. He landed on the Billboard dance/electronic sales chart with the follow-up, 2019's atmospherically denser Drastic Measures, and combined dance-friendly rhythms and impenetrable ambience again on 2023's Temporary Time. A native of Spring, Texas, Sellers' affection for music began as a toddler, when he became fascinated with Eric Clapton's MTV Unplugged performance. An early love of Phil Collins led to his first drum kit at age six. With a background in formal study but largely self-taught on multiple instruments, he released the self-titled Roger Sellers in 2010, settling into a more structured, part-electronic folk over the course of 2011's Moments and 2012's 8 Songs. In the meantime, Sellers established a fan base in Austin with his live, loop-layering solo shows before adopting the Bayonne moniker. Both ambient and percussive, Primitives was issued by Punctum Records in the fall of 2014 before it was picked up by Mom + Pop Music for broader release in March 2016. His Bayonne follow-up, the self-produced Drastic Measures, was partly inspired by '60s symphonic pop and featured even denser walls of sound. It arrived on Mom + Pop in February 2019 and reached the Top Ten of Billboard's U.S. Dance/Electronic Sales chart. Sticking with his well-received pseudonym, Sellers next surfaced in a featured spot on the David Knudson single "Medalle" in early 2022. That August, Bayonne released a remix of Sondre Lerche's ballad "Guaranteed That I'd Be Loved" before issuing the solo "Is It Time" in October. It served as the opening track for his Nettwerk label debut, Temporary Time, which followed in May 2023 with a similar approach to its design.
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