Saturday Night Underwater

Nik Freitas is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. A self-taught musician and engineer, Nik records and plays everything on his albums. In 2008, Nik became a member of Conor Obertst's Mystic Valley Band. For the next two years, Nik played recorded and toured with the Mystic Valley Band, before joining Broken Bells' live band. Between all the touring, Nik was recording his own music at his home studio in Los Angeles. With the constant movement, limited time and space, and after playing electric guitar in bands for the previous few years, Freitas began incorporating electronic instruments into his music. Guitar solos and live drums were now being replaced with old early '80s synthesizers and drum machines, mixing organic acoustics with analog sound generators, beats, and digital swells.