Duncan Lloyd, born in Derby, England, is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the lead songwriter and guitarist for the alternative rock band Maxïmo Park. Lloyd studied Fine Art at Northumbria University and sound engineering at Confetti Studios before co-founding Maxïmo Park. Lloyd released his debut solo studio album, Seeing Double, in 2008 on Warp Records, followed by IOUOME in 2017 on Afternoon in Bed Records and Outside Notion in 2019. In 2014, performing under the pseudonym Decade in Exile, Lloyd released the studio album Transit / Pulse, which was reissued as Transit / Pulse - Remastered in 2021. In 2015, Lloyd co-founded the alternative rock group Nano Kino, releasing their debut EP, Surfing on the Void, in 2016. Lloyd signed with Reveal Records in 2021, contributing the track “A Chime” to the compilation album Have You Heard?, and featured on Nicole Yun's 2019 studio album, Paper Suit, alongside Doug Gillard of Guided by Voices.
