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Merlyn Driver is a singer songwriter and nature-focused musician, whose sound draws on folk, as well as other global and contemporary influences.

Born in Orkney, an archipelago in the north of Scotland and raised on a smallholding without electricity, Merlyn spent much of his time outdoors and only started attending the local school in his teens. His critically acclaimed multi-artist album project, Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds was released in partnership with the RSPB in 2022.

Merlyn’s debut solo album, It Was Also Sometimes Daylight was released in October 2025 to similar widespread critical acclaim, garnering radio play (including BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 3, Radio Scotland, RTE), and reviews from the likes of The Guardian, KLOF Magazine, Songlines, and The Scotsman.

Guests on the album include Owen Spafford (fiddle); Nathan Riki Thomson (double bass); Francesca Ter-Berg (cello); and various creatures including curlews, greenshank, blackbirds, wood sandpipers, barnacle geese, and multiple species of frogs and toads.

Selected Quotes: 

“A gorgeous debut” - Jude Rogers, The Guardian
(on It Was Also Sometimes Daylight)

There is an ease to Driver’s singing and playing, and a lo-fi aspect to the recording, that belies the nuance and complexity of his songwriting, which at times approaches genuine poetry” - KLOF Magazine

"As if Nick Drake had traded some of his solitude for dawn and birdsong" - Esmeralda Moberg, Radio Sweden

“Absolutely sublime” – Lee Schofield (Wild Fell)

”Extraordinary sound” - Cerys Matthews, BBC 6 Music

”A vital voice in the contemporary folk scene” - KLOF Magazine

"Haunting and beautiful" - Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2)