Credit: Photo by Jess Farran

Credit: Photo by Jess Farran

What’s it like to be an “it-boy bedroom-pop auteur” these days? Ask Gus Dapperton, who was given the title by Pitchfork, which also called Dapperton’s debut LP “excitingly personal and a bit disingenuous.”

The 22-year-old born Brendan Rice recorded, mixed, and mastered the 2019 effort, Where Polly People Go To Read, himself and will wrap his fourth Euro-tour (plus hit Asia and Australia for the first time) before heading to the U.S. for a series of dates including a Halloween show at Orpheum in Ybor City. The gig is Dapperton’s only Florida appearance.

Dapperton’s Roland TR-626-driven, smoky indie-pop (and, um, dapper style) could end up making for a very enjoyable Halloween party. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 31 and will cost $18-$20. More information is available via eventbrite.com.

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This article appears in May 23-30, 2019.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...