The San Bernardino native began playing out in his early twenties, quickly crafting a distinctive style that he augmented in the studio with lush multi-tracked vocal arrangements. His debut EP, 2014's Mid-City Island, yielded the dreamy single Man on the Moon and was followed in 2016 by the more acoustic-oriented singles Seeds and Please. As his reputation grew, Sumney began to notch high-profile gigs opening for artists like Solange, James Blake, and David Byrne. In September 2017, Sumney delivered his debut full-length, Aromanticism, an artfully crafted meditation on lovelessness and solitude.