# Cavetown

Robin Daniel Skinner (born 15 December 1998), known professionally as Cavetown (sometimes stylised in all lowercase), is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, and YouTuber. His style blends elements of indie rock, indie pop and bedroom pop with mellow, gentle ukulele ballads.
As of March 2024, he had amassed over 6.6 million monthly streamers on Spotify. His YouTube channel, which he began in November 2012, sits at 2.23 million subscribers and 561 million video views as of June 2024. Skinner released his fifth studio album, Worm Food, in November 2022.

## Early life

Skinner was born in Oxford, England, on 15 December 1998. His interest in music was inspired by his father, David Skinner, a musicologist and choir director, who taught him how to play the acoustic guitar at the age of eight. His mother is a professional Baroque flautist and music teacher. He was raised in Cambridge and attended Parkside Community College from 2010 to 2015 and Hills Road Sixth Form College until 2017.

## Career
### 2012–2015: YouTube and Bandcamp

Skinner began his YouTube channel in November 2012 and uploaded his first video, an original song named "Haunted Lullaby", in October 2013. Soon after, Skinner began releasing music to Bandcamp with his first album, Everything Is Made of Clouds, at the age of 14. He released Gd Vibes, Nervous Friends // Pt. 1, Balance (as brother) and Everything is Made of Stars on Bandcamp over the following two years. Critics expressed that he felt "the acceptance of ignorance" on Gd Vibes. Skinner released his debut single "This is Home" in August 2015, before releasing his debut self-titled album in November 2015. Critics described the album Cavetown as "an eclectic mix of acoustic and electronic". Skinner continued to publish covers of songs onto his YouTube channel from artists such as Pinegrove, Twenty One Pilots and Joji.

### 2016–2018: 16/04/16 and Lemon Boy

In 2016, Skinner released his second studio album, 16/04/16. The album includes a mix of "warm, melodic bedroom pop" and "lo-fi indie rock". The album was dedicated to his childhood friend, Jack Graham, who died of leukaemia on the album's titular date. 60% of the album's proceeds were donated to Cancer Research UK.
In 2018, he released his third album, Lemon Boy.

### 2019–2021: Animal Kingdom, Sleepyhead and Man's Best Friend

In 2019, Skinner released five split singles which were later compiled into Animal Kingdom, a mixtape of ten tracks including covers and original singles with guest appearances from Sidney Gish, Simi, and Chloe Moriondo. He signed under Sire Records in 2019 where he released the single "Telescope" ahead of his upcoming album, later announced as Sleepyhead. Skinner embarked on a series of sold-out worldwide headlining tours in October 2019 in support of this album. He was joined by Hunny and Mxmtoon for a few shows in the UK tour, as well as Field Medic and Chloe Moriondo for a few shows in the US tour. In October 2019, Skinner announced his headlining tour along Australia's east coast, which took place in January 2020, where he was accompanied by Spookyghostboy.
In 2020, Skinner released his major label debut album Sleepyhead. He cancelled the tour in support of Sleepyhead due to the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020. In July 2020, Skinner collaborated with Tessa Violet on the single "Smoke Signals" and announced the launch of his unisex clothing line Cave Collective.
In 2021, he released the extended play Man's Best Friend.

### 2022–present: Worm Food and Little Vice

In 2022, Skinner released several singles, three of which were part of the album Worm Food, released later that year. Worm Food features guests such as Pierce the Veil, Beabadoobee, and Chloe Moriondo. In 2024, Skinner released the extended play Little Vice.

## Personal life

Skinner has stated that he is on both the aromantic and asexual spectrums. He came out as transgender in September 2020. His pronouns are he/they. Skinner lives in Cambridge as of 2019. He has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

## Discography
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | UK | SCO | US Sales | US Heat | US Folk |
| Cavetown | Released: 9 November 2015 Label: Self-released Format: Digital download, streaming, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16/04/16 | Released: 15 August 2016 Label: Self-released Format: Digital download, streaming, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lemon Boy | Released: 1 January 2018 Label: Self-released Format: CD, digital download, streaming, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sleepyhead | Released: 27 March 2020 Label: Sire Records Format: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming, vinyl | 52 | 7 | 53 | 12 | 16 |
| Worm Food | Released: 4 November 2022 Label: Sire Records Format: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming, vinyl | 39 | 8 | 86 | — | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||||||

### Extended plays

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Details | UK Phys. | US Heat. ENC |
| Dear. | Released: 29 June 2018 Label: Triple Crown Records Format: CD, digital download, streaming, vinyl | 7 | 6 |
| Man's Best Friend | Released: 4 June 2021 Label: Sire Records Format: Digital download, streaming, vinyl | — | — |
| little vice | Released: 23 February 2024 Label: Sire Records Format: Digital download, streaming | — | — |

### Mixtapes

| Title | Details |
| Animal Kingdom | Released: 12 April 2019 Label: Oat Milk Formats: Digital download, streaming, CD, vinyl |

### Singles
#### As lead artist

List of other charted and certified songs :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
| Title | Year | UK Phys. | UK Indie Brk. | Certifications | Album |
| "Devil Town" | 2015 | — | 17 | BPI: Silver RIAA: Platinum | Cavetown |
| "This Is Home" | 2015 | — | — | BPI: Silver RIAA: Platinum | Non-album single |
| "Lemon Boy" | 2018 | — | — | RIAA: Gold | Lemon Boy |
| "Just Add Water" | 2018 | — | — | | Dear. |
| "Juliet" | 2018 | — | — | RIAA: Gold | Animal Kingdom: Sandy |
| "Boys Will Be Bugs" | 2018 | — | — | BPI: Silver RIAA: Platinum | Animal Kingdom: Comet |
| "Advice" | 2019 | — | — | | Animal Kingdom: Ash |
| "Self Control" (Frank Ocean cover) | 2019 | — | — | | Animal Kingdom: Shells |
| "Hug All Ur Friends" | 2019 | — | — | | Animal Kingdom: Jackson |
| "Home" | 2019 | 35 | — | RIAA: Gold | Non-album single |
| "Feb 14" | 2019 | — | — | | Sleepyhead |
| "Telescope" | 2019 | — | — | | Sleepyhead |
| "Things That Make It Warm" | 2019 | — | — | | Sleepyhead |
| "You've Got a Friend in Me" (Randy Newman cover) | 2019 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "Sweet Tooth" | 2020 | — | — | | Sleepyhead |
| "I Miss My Mum" | 2020 | — | — | | Sleepyhead |
| "Smoke Signals" (feat. Tessa Violet) | 2020 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "Sharpener" | 2020 | — | — | | Man's Best Friend |
| "Sharpener's Calling Me Again" (feat. Kina) | 2021 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "Paul" (Big Thief cover) | 2021 | — | — | | Man's Best Friend |
| "Ur Gonna Wish U Believed Me" | 2021 | — | — | | Man's Best Friend |
| "Teenage Dirtbag" (feat. Chloe Moriondo) (Wheatus cover) | 2021 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "squares" | 2022 | — | — | | squares / y 13 |
| "y 13" | 2022 | — | — | | squares / y 13 |
| "Fall in Love with a Girl" (feat. Beabadoobee) | 2022 | — | — | | Worm Food |
| "Fall in Love with a Girl" (feat. Orla Gartland) | 2022 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "Grocery Store" | 2022 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "1994" | 2022 | — | — | | Worm Food |
| "Frog" | 2022 | — | — | | Worm Food |
| "del mar county fair 2008" (Underscores cover) | 2023 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "glacier meadow" (feat. Field Medic) | 2023 | — | — | | little vice |
| "let them know they're on your mind" | 2024 | — | — | | little vice |
| "let them know they're on your mind" (acoustic) | 2024 | — | — | | little vice |

#### As featured artist

| Year | Title | Album/EP |
| 2018 | "Devil Town" (with Kevin Devine) | Devinyl Splits No. 11 |
| 2020 | "Is Your Bedroom Ceiling Bored?" (with Sody) | Non-album singles |
| 2020 | "Lemons" (with Brye) | Non-album singles |
| 2020 | "Was It Something I Said" (with Mykey) | Non-album singles |
| 2021 | "Struck by Lighting" (with Sara Kays) | Non-album singles |
| 2021 | "Trying Not to Cry" (with Kina) | Non-album singles |
| 2024 | "Dirty Devil Town" (with Mother Mother) | Non-album singles |

#### Other certified songs

| Year | Title | Certifications | Album/EP |
| 2018 | "Fool" | RIAA: Platinum | Lemon Boy |

### Bandcamp releases

as Cavetown
* Everything Is Made of Clouds (2013)
* Gd Vibes (2014)
* Covers (2015)
* Youtube Covers (2015)
* Nervous Friends // Pt. 1 (2015)
* Everything Is Made of Stars (2015)
as brother
* balance (2015)
* not anywhere (alex g cover) (2018)
* bny rabit (2018)
* i want to meet your dog (2018)
* Hate (2019)