The Aotearoa-born, LA-based singer, songwriter, Grammy-nominated producer and APRA AMCOS Billion Streams honouree is the production and songwriting mastermind and multi-instrumentalist behind some of the biggest pop music of the past decade, having co-written and produced songs for artists including Madison Beer – as her longstanding primary collaborator and creative partner – Sabrina Carpenter, Laufey, Mallrat, Lily Allen and Ashe, among others.

Now, Leroy Clampitt is inviting listeners into his own weird and wonderful world on his debut solo album Get Happy.

With practically all the instruments and vocals across the album written and performed by Clampitt himself, Get Happy traverses themes of love, work, burnout, the highs, the lows, and everything in between.

Clampitt shares: “I was always very content – I still am – making music for other people, I don’t think that’ll ever change. But the ideas that you hear on this record were probably a bit too far out for the people I was working with.” Initially, he was putting the songs together without any intention of releasing them, writing scraps of ideas while in the shower, cooking, travelling to and fro. Then a friend offered him a studio space away from Los Angeles for a week, and the album began to take shape. “It was a burst of inspiration, and that’s what I love about music… what I’ve learnt to love the most.”