Artist

First Timer

Indie RockRockLaid BackDreamy
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Releases

Self Titled

2025

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Genres and Moods

Indie Rock
Rock
Laid Back
Dreamy
Romantic

About

Sometimes, your future bandmate is swaying in the crowd at one of your shows, neither of you imagining that, a decade later, you’d be starting a band of your own. This was the case for Preston Lovinggood and Dylan Alldredge of First Timer, two career musicians with deep Southern roots. Lovinggood, who grew up in Alabama, began touring in middle school with his first project, the punk band Old American Dream. He later fronted Wild Sweet Orange, a folky alternative band that signed with Sony, performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, and toured with Counting Crows and Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s. Similarly, Dylan Allredge, raised in Mississippi on the outskirts of New Orleans, followed a parallel path—playing in bands from middle school onward and honing his skills in recording and producing. Alldredge would eventually open up shop as Skinny Elephant Recording in East Nashville. Unknowingly, their paths first crossed in 2010 when Lovinggood performed with Wild Sweet Orange at Hangout Festival, and Alldredge, in the audience, was intrigued. He downloaded their album that night, never imagining they’d one day work together. In 2020, Lovinggood moved back to Nashville, where Alldredge had long resided. The two quickly discovered they shared a “Mount Rushmore of songwriters” and bonded over a mutual love of lyrics—a connection that became the foundation for their collaboration. Meet First Timer. Alldredge and Lovingood’s music pulls from a rich lineage, folding together the raw intimacy of Leonard Cohen with the dynamic insistence of The Pixies and the moody, evocative atmospheres of The Cure. The pair’s reverence for lyrics touches each track–dialogues of chaos and control, memory and immediacy. There’s a cinematic quality to their sound, emotional without being indulgent. Listeners might catch echoes of early 2000s nostalgia, but their music resists easy categorization and isn’t precious. Together, Alldredge and Lovingood craft a space where the imperfect feels intentional and the unresolved, timeless. Familiar but new. Their songs evoke that feeling of discovering music for the first time: the way it colors the edges of everything and lingers forever.

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