Medium Build: Nicholas Carpenter's singer-songwriter project

Medium Build is the stage name of Nicholas Carpenter, an American singer-songwriter. He has released five studio albums and is signed to Slowplay / Island Records. Carpenter grew up in Georgia and played music in church.

At the age of 21 he moved from Atlanta to Nashville to study songwriting at Middle Tennessee State University. During college he interned at Disney Publishing and wrote songs for his indie rock band Little Moses. In 2016 he moved to Alaska and began performing as Medium Build.

His debut album Falling Apart came out in 2016, followed by Softboy and Roughboy, both in 2018, and his fourth album Wild in 2019. In 2022 he performed with Briston Maroney during the All Aboard Tour, and that year he filmed the music video for "Comeonback" in Anchorage. He first charted in 2023 with "Friend for Life", a collaboration with X Ambassadors, which debuted at No. 17 on Billboard's Alternative Digital Song Sales.

He played South by Southwest in 2023 and toured with Tyler Childers on the Mule Pull '24 Tour in 2024, and has also toured with Lewis Capaldi and FINNEAS. In 2024 he released the album Country and the Marietta EP, the latter including "Yoke", a collaboration with former college classmate Julien Baker.

Also in 2024 he appeared on Holly Humberstone's single version of her song "Cocoon", opened for Baker during her Los Angeles residency, and played festivals including Outside Lands, All Things Go and Austin City Limits. Carpenter is bisexual.