Boston producer Nick Tello already has a storied history (and viral TikTok) surrounding his engineering skills, but when he isn’t contributing his talents to up-and-coming artists, he works on his own blend of sad trap and emo. He is now dropping his latest single, the painfully honest and melodic “Sting.”
Tello was heavily influenced by skate culture, pop punk, and beat literature growing up, and while he currently front the pop punk band A Crash Republic, he has a soft spot for “mainstream” music. He put everything into the band’s debut EP, and after it dropped with little fanfare, he felt his person fire going out.
“My whole life felt like it had been leading up to that point and my expectations were so high that when the results were nothing close to what I imagined it led to a depression that had me feeling like my life was a lie,” Tello says. “It felt like my music dreams were really just that: dreams. Not something that I could actually realize. That’s the ‘Sting’ I felt when I wrote this song.”
COVID kept the band from getting back on the horse for their sophomore follow-up, so Tello started experimenting more with his love for pop production, also passing the time to share the results of his work on TikTok.
With more experience, recording knowledge, and even some disappointment, Tello is moving forward with a fully self-produced project under his own name.
Watch the video for “Sting” here:
For more from Nick Tello, find him on Facebook, Instagram, and Spotify.
Photo courtesy of Nick Tello and Rickelle Lee Tavares
