Skinny Dyck – the playful performing artistic alias of Western Canadian artist Ryan Dyck, is announcing Easygoing, the new full-length album out via Victory Pool Records. His sophomore, adventurous americana LP presents an elegant, subtle shift away from traditional country music. Following on the heels of 2022’s Palace Waiting, which “distilled the spirit of wide-cut country,” (Exclaim!), Easygoing sees Dyck moving a few steps further away from the country music environs he once wholly inhabited. But, fear not twang fans, rather than replacing that sound wholesale, he and his studio collaborators have instead created their own hybrid approaches. Or, as Dyck puts it, “I still like to collect my mail at the old shack off the highway, but I no longer want to live there exclusively.”
This past year, Skinny Dyck performed at the Calgary Folk Music Festival, North Country Fair, and the Canmore Folk Festival and alongside a number of Western Canadian dates he also performed several shows in Norway and Sweden.