Tom Milsom Analysis

• Tom Milsom is a 24-year-old musician, producer artist and writer based in London.
• A devoted online following has developed around his music and videos, attracting over fourteen million views and over a hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube
• His first five records under the ‘Explorers’ moniker were all created and released in 2010.
• He has previously released two full-length albums, 2007′s Awkward Ballads For The Easily Pleased, and 2009′s Painfully Mainstream.

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

"Tom Milsom is a 24 year old multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, comic book artist and videographer. He received piano tuition from an early age, but only began to write music at 17 when he started to take an interest in music production. Later that year, 2007, he recorded his first album ‘Awkward Ballads For The Easily Pleased’, coinciding with the first home-made videos he would upload to the internet. He soon developed a small following, and Awkward Ballads was self-released in a limited run of 50 hand-illustrated copies which ultimately funded the mastering and replication of the final version which continues to sell well. After a year of small gigs and sonic experimentation through discovery of artists like Deerhoof, The Decemberists and Dan Deacon, Tom went into the studio to record his second album ‘Painfully Mainstream’, released on DFTBA Records in 2009. His online following had grown alongside his songwriting ability, and the album develop a devoted audience of thousands." (source: tommilsom.com 2010)

 

“Tom Milsom rocks the streets, the city parks, YouTube, the world-wide intrawebs, the tube stations and, if you asked, he’d probably come to your house and rock your living room. It’s hard to write funny songs that are not moronic and then to deliver them with conviction. Tom Milsom is one of the few who can do it.” —Dave Dederer, founding guitarist and singer, The Presidents of the United States of America.

 

“Tom Milsom is one of the best songwriters of his generation. His songs are as smart as they are catchy.” - John Green, New York Times best-selling author of Paper Towns & The Fault In Our Stars

 

“Tom Milsom, is unfairly talented and young and we hate him for that, but we’ll probably buy his album for those exact same reasons.” — Tom Phillips, London Metro