Jeremy Fisher

Jeremy Fisher entered the music scene with his 2001 debut and has since earned recognition as one of Canada’s most melodic songwriters, crafting infectious folk-pop numbers marked by an unfailingly positive outlook. Born Jeremy Binns, he spent his formative years in Hamilton, Ontario, before making his home in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2001 he issued his first independent solo effort, Back Porch Spirituals, and promoted the recording by cycling across the continent from Seattle, Washington, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, supplementing the journey with impromptu street performances. The unconventional campaign drew the attention of Sony’s Canadian operations, which issued his first major-label album, Let It Shine, in 2004. Additional roadwork in 2005 accompanied modest Canadian radio exposure for the single “High School.”

He returned to the studio for the follow-up Goodbye Blue Monday, issued in Canada by the Aquarius imprint in 2007 and handled in distribution by Sony BMG. The project marked his commercial breakthrough, propelled by a DIY stop-motion video for the single “Cigarette” that spread rapidly on YouTube, generating broad visibility and a Juno nomination in his home country. Later that year he made his initial U.S. television appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to support the album’s American release through Wind-Up Records. Over the ensuing two years he shared stages on major tours with the Proclaimers and Great Big Sea while completing work on his fourth album, 2010’s Flood. Anchored once more by acoustic guitar, Flood extended Fisher’s growing emphasis on concise, buoyant melodic pop.

Two years afterward, Mint Julep saw the artist return to a folk-rooted approach via a spare, acoustic-driven collection. By contrast, his sixth album, 2014’s The Lemon Squeeze, emerged as an unadorned pop record filled with lively arrangements, expansive choruses, and abundant hooks, shaped by production from the team of Gus Van Go and Werner F. After constructing a modest home studio, Fisher stepped back from his own catalog to helm projects for Adam Kagan and Great Big Sea’s Séan McCann. He also wrote the theme for the Disney animated series Billy Dilley’s Super-Duper Subterranean Summer. In 2017 he marked the tenth anniversary of Goodbye Blue Monday through a reissue campaign and later that year introduced the new single “This Is the Good Life.”