Ashton Mills is earning his mark as 1 of Canada’s most promising young hip-hop and R&B artists with his new songs video for “PAPER BOATS (OFF THE Ground).”

The Toronto indigenous brings easy guitar chords and dreamy piano notes in this special studio model of the track off his debut project YOU Viewed ME Reduce MY Head, which dropped late last 12 months.

The rising artist flexes his multi-hyphenate side as the movie demonstrates him participating in each instrument featured in the song. Mills wrote, manufactured, and done the track entirely on his individual. The visible, shot at Toronto’s In addition Ultra Studios, shows the artist’s inventive approach and development of his incredibly varied sound development, that includes the drums, keys, guitar, and Mills’ vocals. 

Not unfamiliar with Toronto’s new music scene, Mills is a songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has generated and performed for a number of artists, this sort of as Jazz Cartier, Amir Obe, CMDWN, Sean Leon, and Eli Sostre. YOU Watched ME Reduce MY Brain was his very first release as a singer.  

Mills tells Elaborate that the primary variation of “PAPER BOATS” began off on the piano and developed with synths and experimental sounds in the course of his music process. “In phrases of this visual, I like presenting tips in unconventional techniques but given the tempo, chords, and sorts of seems I employed in the first, it felt pure to operate backwards from that and do something additional clean reduce and streamlined. It inevitably grew to become the video you see here,” he states.