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<\/a><\/p>\nWe like\u00a0Willie J Healey here at\u00a0Wonderland.\u00a0<\/em>In fact, we like him so much that he appeared in our 10th Anniversary Issue: he’s a 20 year old, ginger-mopped crooner from Oxford with a wicked sense of humor and a deep, richly toned voice that is deliciously at odds with his devil-may-care youthfulness. Still raw enough to be practicing in his garage at home, he released his debut EP,\u00a0HD Malibu<\/em>, earlier this year and its full of the hazy, sliding-guitar riffs that mark Willie out as the next in a long line of talented acolytes of\u00a0The Beach Boys\u00a0<\/em>– with the addition of a sonic detour through Mac De Marco’s slacker country. Though it’s neither of these artists who Willie claims\u00a0as his biggest inspiration, instead citing Neil Young: “Our music is very different but I love his stuff. He\u2019s done over 40 albums or something like that?! The way he\u2019s constantly evolving is inspirational.”<\/p>\n Willie also caught attention for whipping it around in\u00a0a limo (\u201cI tried to keep it going because everyone was like \u2018Ah that\u2019s so funny Willie, you\u2019ve got a limo, you\u2019re such a player'”) and writing an\u00a0open letter addressed to his neighbours in which he apologised for making so much noise, for feeding their fish a burger wrapper and, on behalf of his mate Eddy, for stealing women’s clothes from the washing line. His irreverant sense of humour shines through in the\u00a0video for his track ‘Subterranean’, which shows him stuffing handfuls of birthday cake all over his face and generally making a surreal mess of things – check it out below. What was the significance of the cake though? Not a lot it turns out: “Ever since I saw the cake scene in Matilda<\/em>, it\u2019s been a dream of mine to stick my face in a cake. It doesn\u2019t mean much, just a fun thing to do.” Fair enough, Cook’s ‘Sweat and Blood Cake’ always looked tempting to me as well.<\/p>\n