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"Seamus Erskine's weirdo pop music is a welcome anomaly to the Halifax music scene. With his eccentric lyrics, quasi-psychedelic riffs and intriguing sense of melody, Seamus harkens something lost from the past, but channels something that has yet to arrive from the future." - Trevor Murphy (Halifax Is Burning)
"Seamus Erskine's weirdo pop music is a welcome anomaly to the Halifax music scene. With his eccentric lyrics, quasi-psychedelic riffs and intriguing sense of melody, Seamus harkens something lost from the past, but channels something that has yet to arrive from the future." - Trevor Murphy (Halifax Is Burning)
Considering Seamus Erskine has been recording music in his parents' basement for the last 10 years, you could say that his first solo record was a long time coming. And Erskine (also of The Sweet Deals) took the solo part quite literally, taking the reigns and playing nearly every instrument you hear on
Hefeweizen Highway, with the exception of some help from Rob Crowell on keys. A sweet melody paired with an imagined highway beneath a rainbow of wheat beer isn't the only dreamy inspiration he drew from to get his unique, sometimes psychedelic, sound. "Over the past year or so, my daily routine has been saturated with listening to live Grateful Dead and watching David Lynch movies," Erskine says, who also credits his taste for "unfashionable" '70s prog-rockers like Genesis as influential. Fashionable or not, it looks like his road to success might just be paved with hefeweizen. - Allison Saunders (The Coast)
Considering Seamus Erskine has been recording music in his parents' basement for the last 10 years, you could say that his first solo record was a long time coming. And Erskine (also of The Sweet Deals) took the solo part quite literally, taking the reigns and playing nearly every instrument you hear on
Hefeweizen Highway, with the exception of some help from Rob Crowell on keys. A sweet melody paired with an imagined highway beneath a rainbow of wheat beer isn't the only dreamy inspiration he drew from to get his unique, sometimes psychedelic, sound. "Over the past year or so, my daily routine has been saturated with listening to live Grateful Dead and watching David Lynch movies," Erskine says, who also credits his taste for "unfashionable" '70s prog-rockers like Genesis as influential. Fashionable or not, it looks like his road to success might just be paved with hefeweizen. - Allison Saunders (The Coast)
?"Halifax foursome headed up by the baby-faced Erskine tread in an oddball blend of art rock with touches of rockabilly and jazz, swirling keyboards and Zappa-lite sprinkles that wouldn’t be out of place in the background of a David Lynch film." - Chris Young (Toronto Star)
?"Halifax foursome headed up by the baby-faced Erskine tread in an oddball blend of art rock with touches of rockabilly and jazz, swirling keyboards and Zappa-lite sprinkles that wouldn’t be out of place in the background of a David Lynch film." - Chris Young (Toronto Star)
Discography
The Greatest Hits play songs from Seamus Erskine's extensive musical catalog and beyond.
(As Seamus Erskine) - I Should Buy An Olive (2012)
The Sweet Deals - Dancing With The Stars (2012)
(As Seamus Erskine) - Hefeweizen Highway (2011)
"Friday Nite," "Shooting Stars," "Hefeweizen Highway," "Troll 2," "(Lay Off The) Gruberhof" and "Elephant In The Room" have recieved radio airplay on CBC Radio 3, CKDU, Live105, Q104 (Halifax) and CKUM (Moncton).
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THE GREATEST HITS
The latest musical experiment in a string of abominations committed by Halifax native and multi-instrumentalist, Seamus Erskine. After releasing 2011's Hefeweizen Highway and 2012's I Should Buy An Olive EP (both produced by Charles Austin of The Super Friendz and Buck 65) and The Sweet Deals' Dancing With The Stars (produced by Garrett Mason), Seamus played the Halifax Pop Explosion 2012 before fleeing to Toronto. In need of a top notch band to perform choice selections from his vast repetoire, Seamus enlisted the very creme de la creme of instrumentalists, who happened to be a mix of roommates and friends. The Greatest Hits are not, however, a band of hired guns rehashing the same old songs of an obscure musician. Rather, they sport a funky and cosmic sonic gumbo - rock lexicon with a jazz syntax.
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