Artists Artist
Taylor Goldsmith
Taylor Goldsmith is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in 1985, who fronts Dawes and writes most of its songs. He started out in Simon Dawes with Blake Mills, a classmate at Malibu High School, and has also recorded with Middle Brother and with T Bone Burnett’s New Basement Tapes, which set to music lyrics Bob Dylan wrote in 1967. He has been married to the actor and singer Mandy Moore since 2018.
On Earbuddy
Band: lead vocals, guitars, piano, synth, electric sitar; wrote or co-wrote all ten songs 
Review Folk rock, Pop rock
Dawes Passwords
Dawes made their sixth album in a rushed two weeks with Jonathan Wilson and put the darkest songs first. The opening holds up; the long, mellow run after it doesn't.
Elmo Phelge · 6 Nov 2026