Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Canada, raspy-voiced, genre-mingling dance popster Coleman Hell is a producer/singer/songwriter based in Toronto, Canada. His breakthrough single "2 Heads", a banjo-R&B-dance mosaic that topped streaming-service charts in early 2015, lead to a record deal with Columbia. With the label behind it, the song reached number 15 on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 that fall. His full-length debut, Summerland, arrived in October 2016 and became a Top 30 album in Canada alongside another charting single, "Fireproof."
Opener - The Treble
The thing that no one tells you about your twenties is that they are a whirlwind of epic highs and gut-wrenching lows, none of which you ever see coming. They are a constant battle not to get lost on the way to finding yourself, and the truth is that everyone around you is basically just holding on for dear life and hoping that nobody notices.
The good news is that by the time it’s all over and done, you’re usually so emotionally wasted that you don’t have it in you to fight your soul-crushing insecurities and realize it’s far less work to be the best version of the person that you’ve been all along.
For alternative rock band The Treble––Mark Brusegard (vocals), Colin McTavish (keys, synth, rhythm), Graeme Woods (guitar) and Patrick Hansen (Bass, Synth)––that realization was completely freeing. Not only did it open the floodgates creatively, but it saw the band writing from a place of contentment and self-assurance for the very first time.
“I think going through your twenties you just realize how much you see people go through and how much you’ve changed,” says vocalist Mark Brusegard. “For us, the last ten years have been this great thrill ride where all of this cool stuff happened, but we didn’t get a chance to take a breath because we were always trying to please somebody else. When we finally took the time to just be, that was when we were able to figure out who we are, what we sound like, and how to best represent all of that musically.
“It’s funny,” he continues, “but when you finally stop being unsure of whom you are and kind of just realize you’re already yourself, that’s when everything starts aligning.”
Captured fully on their forthcoming sophomore effort produced by Ryan Worsley (Dear Rouge, Said The Whale), which is jam-packed with melody-heavy tracks that couple anthemic group harmonies and poignant autobiographical lyrics with urgent brooding rhythms and soaring electronic flourishes, is truly the sound of The Treble coming into its own.