Urthboy
Urthboy is an award winning songwriter and artist with 12 full length albums over 24 years.
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Urthboy
Urthboy (Tim Levinson) is an MC grounded in hip hop culture, finding his voice as a storyteller over the course of six solo albums and five with The Herd.
From innocent wordplay writing poetry as a 10yo at Wentworth Falls Public School through to award-winning hip hop artist, Urthboy has remained curious about the power of the pen and continually sought out new songs, new collaborations, new ideas as he evolved as an artist.
The artist, manager and Elefant Traks Managing Director (not to mention partner, dad, Swans tragic and activist) has defied labels and achieved a rare longevity in music culture both as an artist and an independent industry operator, managing groups like Hermitude.
Unafraid to write from an uncomfortable lens that reflects back at his audience to encourage them to question what they think, whether masculinity and identity on his 2023 album Savour, or the repetition of history and the connection between the past and present on his 2016 opus ‘The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat’.
Urthboy’s music timeline has never been in lockstep with his peers, and he’s continuously found a way to cut through with a uniquely intimate songwriting style, neither built for superstardom nor obscurity. How many artists have released 12 albums while managing multi-platinum bands and running an independent record label that has #1 records in its catalogue?
Urthboy has released five studio albums (Distant Sense of Random Menace (2004), The Signal (2007), Spitshine (2009), Smokey’s Haunt (2012) and The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat (2016), Jangle Bells – a Christmas album (2021) and Savour in 2023. He has a further five with The Herd (Self-Titled 2001, An Elefant Never Forgets 2003, The Sun Never Sets 2005, Summerland 2008, Future Shade 2011).