johnnoirsmith

Norway

John Noir Smith is an up-and-coming Norwegian artist who dabbles into highly various genres (everything from lofi hip hop to folk pop, jazz, ambient and post-punk), taking inspiration from the likes of Lou Reed, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, David Bowie, Andrew Huang, Bjørn Tomren and many many more. His lifestyle as a minimalist vegetarian Buddhist do lend inspiration to a lot of his lyrics. He's worked with the bassist of Skovveien Bjun on Everything as well as Jarxes on writing the song What to Do. The cover photo for Everything was taken by their good friend Thorbear, and the cover for Nighttime was designed by Marija Vlasova.
 His song Ambivalent was featured at Festspillene i Bergen in June of 2020.