Zane Barratt’s back story is that of a traveller.

As a teenage busker from Vancouver, he played in the streets all over Canada before setting out to see the world and eventually settling in Berlin.

That’s where he recorded Les Biéns, his debut EP. As you might expect, Zane’s aesthetic is hard to pin down to any particular scene or sound.

The peripatetic tunesmith—who is now back in Vancouver—writes the sort of earnest, well-crafted indie-pop songs that would sound just as good in a full-band treatment on a festival stage as they would stripped down to guitar and vocals on a street corner.