"Two and a half years, it’s been since I started creating music and living my dreams under the name Rival Summers. I started this when I was only fifteen, and it’s crazy to think how many places I’ve seen, how many people I’ve met, and how much I’ve grown as a person and a musician since then. If it werent for Rival Summers, I wouldn’t be who I am now. I would have no direction and many people the people that I have in my life wouldn’t be if I had never started any of this.…

Claude says:Rival Summers makes acoustic pop with an earnest, bedroom-recorded quality—the kind of project that sounds like someone figuring out their voice in real time. You caught them early in 2013, two plays in one sitting, and haven't circled back since, but there's something about that brief moment that stuck around in your archive.