Music Lessons With Diandra: Will Linley And Finding Your Sound

One of the most fascinating parts about my journey as an artist is figuring where you lie in your own sound. Are you the violins in the backdrop stringing like a country side? Are you how  your country or county’s accent drawls in how you annunciate lyrics? Are you just implied or explicit feelings on what makes you tick or turn up as a person? For Will Linley, he’s all of the above and he is hoping that amidst the many male artists that cross the pond, he´ll be a unique stand out. 

Men with an accent and a guitar is not exactly new in the New York pub scene. Actually, it is too common appearance in Williamsburg, especially after 9 on the weekends. Yet, as I search for my own uniqueness, Linley pops up as an artist that has no problem growing into said term. He´s trying to embrace pop with his more earthed singing style and lyrics, and like many Gen Z, he just cannot avoid topics like loneliness, nostalgia, and the feeling you are missing something even though you are just fine. Yet, what makes that unique? 

Taste is a tricky thing, and often I find that what I like cannot be explained because, when it is, it just comes off like much of the same. Sure, Linley can check a lot of common boxes, but I think the humility from which he holds his upbringing as the platform for his singing comes off as …well… unique. Thus, making the old adage true: being yourself really is enough.