Zerbin Official

Today, I received every writers dream; a submission that leaves you awestruck to the point you're empty of words.

In most cases, I'm ready to fire off an article immediately after listening to a musician’s body of work.

In this instance, it's quite the contrary.

In fact, I'd go as far as saying that I'm ill equipped to handle the task at hand.

Fortunately, the Edmonton based alternative/indie rock group comprised of Jason Zerbin & Peter Mol, has made this daunting task infinitely easier to take on.

Upon first glance, I almost decided to discard the Canadian group purely based on "judging a book by it's cover" & not from a place of merit.

Thankfully, I chose not to follow through with the innate human nature I was born with & decided to expand outside of The Place For Things traditional hip-hop roots.

In doing so, I'm happy to showcase a picturesque, & at times, humorous visual that'll stimulate & captivate even the most unyielding of ears.

I strongly encourage each & every viewer to dive in head first to Zerbin's discography. You'll be more than pleased you did. - The Place for Things

Zerbin's soaring spiritual anthems possess a sonic gravitas that places them with the best of indie-rock royalty.

Be it debut EP Fools and Gold, or current EP Touch, each arresting Zerbin song flows easily past the ears and into the soul like slice-of-life heart plays.

The band has toured across Canada several times, sharing the stage with Panic at The Disco, Plain White T's, Linkin Park, Awolnation, and The Flaming Lips. They are winning new audiences, rave reviews, and regular radio airplay and appear headed toward stadium-band stardom.

Zerbin won Single of the Year, and Music Video of the Year at the 2012 Edmonton Music Awards, for fan favourite New Earth. Like the heartwarming classic Disney song Heigh-Ho! the happy-go-lucky tune has also gained global exposure as the trailer song for Walking With Dinosaurs. New Earth was also used as a life affirming sentiment in a Coffee Mate commercial in the United States.

Other Zerbin songs have served as stirring musical accents for many films and television shows.

Maybe it's because lyricist Jason Zerbin, with a passion for philosophy and theology, likes to ponder the purpose of life using artistic elements of sound and vision.

"For me music is about capturing a soul, almost like creating a painting in sound and textures. There are a lot of visuals associated with that in mind, almost like colours and flavours as we create."

Zerbin and Peter Mol, multi-instrumentalists from Edmonton, began as a duo in 2009. They eventually transitioned into a changing musical collective, including band pals Derek Gust and Nick West.

In terms of its visual identity, Zerbin's lush romantic sound is beautifully illustrated in all of its music videos. Lift, is a bittersweet love dance set to a stunning B.C. wilderness backdrop featuring Zerbin's haunting vocals and a gorgeous mandolin refrain.

New Earth features a quirky stop action version of Jason Zerbin bouncing about in the woods, enjoying a Mad Hatter-esque tea party, and reciting German author Else Ury's best loved children's stories to a magically animated Old-World toy entourage.

Zerbin laughs and admits though it can be "cheesy," he carries this sense of whimsy in his subconscious. On a more serious note, he says the visual aspect of a song is necessary because a music-video single is the "No. 1 way" people consume songs. - TheRecord.com

Even if the name Zerbin doesn’t ring a bell, odds are you have heard their songs before, as evidenced by smartphones trying to shazaam songs in the set. The BC band, with Jason Zerbin and Peter Moi as the original nucleus, impressed those gathered with their roaring anthems from EPs Fool’s Gold and Touch. The multi-instrumentalism and soaring vocals amplified the trio’s sound that could fill corners of arenas. Even the band’s whistling skills was marvelous in the set closer ‘New Earth’, where Moi’s whistling could put Marc Foster’s whistling bridge during ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ to shame. - Ride the Tempo