MEDIUM BUILD AND SYDNEY ROSE SHARE COVER OF CHARLI XCX’S HIT SONG “SYMPATHY IS A KNIFE”

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF ALL THINGS GO

BENEFIT COMPILATION AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE NOVEMBER 7, ALL PROCEEDS DONATED TO THE ALLY COALITION

“Describing Medium Build’s music—which combines the vocal textures of R&B crooners like Omar Apollo and Frank Ocean with the emo tendencies of Dashboard Confessional and Fall Out Boy with the fine-tuned songcraft of mainstream country—can feel like an absurd exercise in genre-hopping.”—Rolling Stone—READ HERE

“The indie rocker’s music is marked by his compassionate, conversational lyricism and grounded, grungy sound.”—NPR Music—READ HERE

Paper—READ HERE

Clash—READ HERE

People—READ HERE

Billboard—READ HERE

The Tennessean—READ HERE

NME—READ HERE

October 31, 2025—Rising star Medium Build, a.k.a. critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Nick Carpenter, is teaming up with Nashville-based singer/songwriter Sydney Rose for a cover of Charli XCX’s hit song “Sympathy is a Knife” for the All Things Go 10th Anniversary Benefit Compilation. Listen to/share the song HERE.

“This song is the most beautiful snapshot of human insecurity,” says Carpenter. “I remember the first time I heard it thinking, ‘omg did she just say she wants to shoot herself?! You can’t say that!’ even though I thought about doing that all the time. I love how honest Charli is about her internal conflict. ‘I couldn’t even be her if I tried,’ literally. All the wars in our head are so bogus and thoughts are rarely valid at all. This song came at a perfect time where we all wanted to be hot and perfect and bouncing back into life. Brat summer and Pink Pony Club and Espresso. It was all good vibes, but Charli also said it’s cool if you’re an insecure piece of shit. I love her.

Sydney and I related on being insecure little weirdos from neighboring towns in Georgia. I love her. I couldn’t even be Sydney Rose if I tried. But I do wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s show.”

The compilation celebrates 10 years of All Things Go, with all proceeds being donated to The Ally Coalition. The full album is available everywhere digitally on November 7 via Futures Music Group, also featuring contributions from Maren Morris, Jack Antonoff, Kesha, Orville Peck, Rachel Chinouriri and a host of others.

The new track follows Medium Build’s summer singles “Last Time” and “Drug Dealer,” as well as his latest EP takeaways (out now via slowplay/Island Records) which reimagines three songs from the early chapter of his career, featuring one reworked track each from his self-released albums softboy, roughboy and Wild. Listen to/share the EP HERE.

The new track continues a busy 2025 for Medium Build which includes a nomination for Emerging Act of the Year at the 24th Annual Americana Honors & Awards. He toured throughout the summer, joining Alex Warren, Tyler Childers and Rainbow Kitten Surprise on select dates including two nights at NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium with Childers and a stop at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre with Rainbow Kitten Surprise.

Earlier this year, Carpenter supported Role Model on his sold-out No Place Like Tour for five dates in Australia. He then headlined shows across New Zealand and Ireland, with the international dates featured in installments of the mini docuseries “DIRT IN YOUR LUNGS.” Watch the official videos HERE.

Medium Build also performed at the Coachella Music Festival, Kilby Block Party and Los Angeles’ El Rey this summer, and completed a 10-date co-headline run with Petey U.S.A.

Medium Build’s critically acclaimed debut full-length, Country, is out now on slowplay/Island Records. The record continues to see extensive praise from NPR Music, People, Billboard, The Tennessean, NME and many more, while Rolling Stone featured Medium Build in this year’s Future 25 feature.

Country finds Carpenter wrestling with the idea of home across the album’s twelve songs. Born in Georgia with a close relationship to his Southern roots, the artist now splits his time between hometowns in Anchorage, Alaska and Nashville, Tennessee. “I wanted this album to have my goddamn DNA on it,” Carpenter details. “I wanted Country to have a human touch. I want Country to be something you love with and dance with and cry with and sleep with and lean into.”

Creating Medium Build in 2015, Nick Carpenter has gone on to release five studio albums to date. He has become a favorite across the creative community, with artists including John Mayer, Zach Bryan, Elton John, Boygenius and more counting themselves amongst his fans. He has toured with the likes of Lewis Capaldi, FINNEAS, Holly Humberstone and Briston Maroney, and found himself in a highly coveted slot on Zane Lowe’s Artists to Watch 2024 list. In 2023, his collaboration with X Ambassadors on “Friend For Life” found him entering the Billboard charts for the first time.

For more information, please contact Samantha Tillman,
Joe Cohen, Kate Rakvic, Grace Jacobsak or Carla Sacks at
Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.

www.mediumbuildmusic.com