Dylan Cartlidge is a singer, rapper, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist with a bristly mix of vintage soul and rock informed by working-class hip-hop. Featured on BBC Two's The Mighty Redcar, he signed a major publishing deal during the documentary's production, and in 2019 issued the Monsters Under the Bed EP through Glassnote Records.
Cartlidge wrote his first raps at age 13 and threw himself into music the next year, after he moved to the coastal town of Redcar in North Yorkshire, England. Within a few years, he was also producing tracks. Through a deal with Halftime M...