A singer/songwriter who takes influence from '70s pop, jazz, rock, '60s sunshine pop, and more,
Mitch Davis spent years on various music scenes in Canada working as a sideman, songwriter, and producer before stepping out on his own. Both sonically complex and breezy, his entirely self-recorded solo debut, 2022's The Haunt, also managed to marry themes of loneliness and isolation with an optimistic outlook.
A near lifelong musician and multi-instrumentalist,
Mitch Davis played drums at church and saxophone in the school band growing up, though he never had any formal lessons. As an active member of the music scenes of Clearwater, then Edmonton, and later Montreal as an adult, he worked with projects as diverse as avant-garde act Elle Barbara's Black Space, rockers Faith Healer, and multifaceted hip-hop artist
Cadence Weapon. When touring and recording were largely paused due to the rise of the pandemic in 2020,
Davis worked in isolation at his home studio, writing, recording, and playing all of the instruments for his kaleidoscopic solo debut as well as building equipment for it, including the analog Mitch Davis Compressor. The finished album, The Haunt, arrived on Arbutus Records in April 2022, as plans to make his compressor available commercially were in the works. ~ Marcy Donelson