The past few years have been a wild ride, cutting his teeth on the Manchester spoken word scene and gaining notoriety for his seamless flow of contemporary British life, to finding the unexpected beauty in the everyday, it was the 2023 release of his single ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Fallacy’ that kicked off his meteoric ascent. Set against the backdrop of a pounding kick drum and club-ready synths, Szmierek lets loose a stream of consciousness that lays out his vision of musical vulnerability and communal escapism: “Everything’s ironic now, post-post-punk. Take me away” he says on the track. The earworming record soon found its way onto the BBC 6 Music airwaves and led Szmierek to be named an Artist of the Year by the station. There followed appearances on Later… with Jools Holland, a BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale session, multiple triumphant Glastonbury sets and a flurry of comparisons: to the pavement prose of The Streets, the poetry of John Cooper Clarke if he found himself at the Haçienda. His dancefloor-focused debut album, Service Station at the End of the Universe is set for release 28th Feb 2025, where Szmierek cements his sound as one that is distinctly his own.