Dylan Fitchett’s solo music creates a relaxing, melodic escape, and the musician who came of age in Williamsburg is set to release his first EP on Aug. 16. Dylan Rockwell Fitchett, whose stage name is Dylan Rockwell, has been playing in bands since middle school, and after playing with a few different groups in the Washington, D.
C., area, he’s releasing his debut solo extended play. Fitchett, 31, moved to Williamsburg when he was 10, and he was based there throughout college before moving to D.
C., where he is now an audio engineer. After years of playing with other groups in the area, he said he’s come into his own.
“The types of songs I was writing changed a little bit. I kind of found a more cohesive voice,” he said on why he was branching off on his own project. “Before, I was kind of taking things just one song at a time — just kind of throwing songs at the wall — and this was an opportunity for a fresh start where I could begin new with my fully kind of figured out, cohesive writing voice and production style.
” “It’s a little bit more acoustic ...
than the previous stuff I was doing,” he said. The EP is called “False Dawn,” and the title track and the song “Pollyanna” have already been released as singles. The EP will have four songs on it.
The groups Fitchett has been in have put out mainly singer-songwriter music, and his new music, though a bit more relaxed, stays true to that style. He said that while playing in various projects, he le.