“Curtains-drawn, skin-bare pieces delivered with such delicacy that they risk breaking up, like a radio signal.”
-Sam Boer
Singer/songwriter/musician, playwright, host of Lyrically Speaking
Singer-songwriter Erik Bleich creates Liminal Americana for kind-hearted people living through hard-times.
A Toronto-based singer-songwriter raised in the isolated mill town of Dryden, Ontario, his work is grounded in a plainspoken, conversational voice. Cinematic indie folk meets blue-collar poetry. His songs often circle what goes unnoticed, the quiet patterns beneath ordinary life, the feeling of something just out of frame.
For fans of: Big Thief, Sufjan Stevens, John K Samson
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COMING JUNE 19, 2026
Sumac, the long-awaited follow up to 2022’s More Than Anything You’ve Feared is, perhaps, Erik’s most realized work to date. This ten song LP is a unique journey full of sounds and textures borrowed from
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“I am begging you: Trust these songs. They will honour that trust unfailingly.”
- David newberry
singer/songwriter, author, host of My Favourite Chords
There's a spot out in the east end of town where the city leaves pieces of itself behind. As Toronto grew into one with subways and towers, the Leslie Street Spit grew out into Lake Ontario. It wasn't meant to be a nature reserve but it became one anyway. Out of the rubble grew this thriving wetland, full of migratory birds, surreal beaches of artificial stone, and sumac groves among the cottonwoods.
Several years ago a friend took me out there and I fell in love with the strangeness of it all. It's otherworldly. And it's taken on this almost mythical status (for me) as a place where you can go to leave parts of yourself behind. Trusting that something new will grow out of them. I was thinking about about that when I wrote this.