Over the past decade or so, Canadian guitarist Nick Johnston has established himself as one of the most tasteful six-stringers of his generation.
On albums like 2014’s Atomic Mind and the Remarkably Human follow-up that arrived two years after, he took instrumental rock to new limits by mixing rolling legato techniques, sequenced arpeggios and outside scales into a sound that was very much his own – melting minds in ways not too dissimilar to Guthrie Govan, the man often labeled as the greatest player on earth.
