From Fort Collins, Colorado, Logan Farmer crafts music that lingers in the quietest corners of folk — intimate, slow-moving and heavy, with atmosphere. Soft guitars, murmured vocals, and the subtle drift of ambient textures that suggest distance, memory, and decay. Farmer’s writing often turns on the small collisions between the personal and the universal, tracing how environmental and emotional fragility echo one another. After early experiments under the name Monarch Mtn., he released his debut as Logan Farmer, Still No Mother (2020), a stark, quietly urgent meditation on isolation and climate dread. A Mold for the Bell (2022) followed, refining his sound into something even more spare and cinematic, with contributions from Mary Lattimore and Joseph Shabason adding a fragile shimmer around his voice. His most recent work, the Butchers EP (2025), turns inward again, pairing field recordings and minimalist instrumentation with lyrics that read like fragments from a fading diary. Farmer’s music occupies a rare register: contemplative but unsentimental, rooted in the folk tradition yet open to drone, ambient, and experimental gestures. Each release feels like a small, self-contained world — an invitation to listen closely, and to sit with the uneasy beauty that remains when everything else has quieted down.
Nightmare World I See The Horizon, his third album, will be released by Western Vinyl on January 16th, 2026. The first single is Manhattan, which is out now. 

What Logan Says: “Manhattan was my attempt at writing an accessible piece of Americana that doesn’t shy away from difficult subject matter. Lyrically, it’s about comfort and complicity in times of collapse. The confusing tightrope between rest and righteous action: getting drunk in the depths of a doom scroll. Eating sushi in the shadow of a tent city. That sort of thing. Its accompanying music video was directed by Ben Ward.”

The Album: Nightmare World I See The Horizon

“With new full-length Nightmare World I See The Horizon, the Colorado-based songwriter continues to evolve the premise set by his previous albums, Still No Mother (2020) and A Mold For The Bell (2022). Those records charted the approach of imminent catastrophe through a chorus of distinct voices, characters who scratched around for dignity at a time when the fabric of their environment seemed to be tearing itself apart. The result was essentially the before and after overlaid. A mortal fear matched only by a premature sense of mourning for all that would soon be lost. But while Nightmare Worldcontinues the apocalyptic atmosphere, Farmer widens his gaze to engage not only with our encroaching doom, but also the forces which have brought it to bear, and the ways in which we are complicit in their perseverance. Coming over three years after A Mold For The Bell, the album had the longest gestation period of any of Farmer’s releases, a fact which feels significant in light of its contemplative style. “The break gave me some time to reflect on my work and really consider what I was doing and why I was doing it,” he explains, and this self-interrogation grew into a key theme. Here the substance of the cataclysm is richer, darker, and more complex. Not so much a biblical rapture as the logical endpoint of a society driven by fear and greed. Something as present within every small luxury we consume as it is explicit in acts of destruction. A fate wrought unevenly according to systems of privilege and luck. On Nightmare World, there is still deep sadness, the same ever-present dread, but now these emotions are accompanied by shame. With the help of an esteemed cast of contributors which includes Heather Woods Broderick, Annie Leeth (Faye Webster), and Patrick Lyons (Colter Wall), Farmer brings this world to life through his most ambitious sonic landscapes to date. Elements of slowcore and surf rock add new hues, though the most striking addition to his palette is the inspiration from Western film scores. A stark, decidedly American edge that contains its own sense of history and implied violence, grounding the milieu within a wider context. For this Nightmare World was doomed from its inception.”

Manhattan is out now. Nightmare World I See The Horizon will be out via Western Vinyl on January 16th, 2026. Look HERE for more information on Logan Farmer.