Little Wins is the bedroom pop-turned-heartland rock solo project of producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Vait. When Vait lost his mother to cancer, he channeled his grief into hand-building a home studio. He started writing for the first time in years—the songs revealing themselves as cinematic escapes, drawing influence from artists like Waxahatchee, Kacey Musgraves, S.G. Goodman, and Bon Iver. He wrote the final songs that would comprise his debut album while on a trip to Hart Mountain, Oregon with his father, on the one-year anniversary of his mom’s passing.

Vait began recording in the studio he built. He played nearly every instrument and mixed the collection of songs himself. As he approached the finish line, Vait faltered. A fear took hold: that releasing such a vulnerable work—so deeply imbued with loss—would invite the soft tide of change to wash away the version of himself that grief had made familiar. A year passed before Vait eventually surrendered and entered the final stage of grief, as the moon enters its final phase: the waning crescent. It was in that dusk-lit moment of acceptance that the album took its final shape, and he was able to let go.

Vait will release his debut full-length album, Restless Medium, Quiet Moon, in September 2025. The work speaks to an earnest longing for balance, the urgent need for flight, and the curious, courageous spirit in us all. The urge to cry and be held. To reach desperately for connection. To light a fire in one’s self and perhaps in the hearts of others—and to uncover a deeper understanding of grief and loneliness and the joy and beauty that can spring from both.