Ian Galipeau

Ian Galipeau is a singer-songwriter who dwells on his craft to a (borderline) obsessive degree. His musical tastes are full of contradictions; he consumes the melancholy poetry of Leonard Cohen and the absurdist pop rock of Barenaked Ladies with equal reverence. You can hear those contradictions play out in the course of his set - sometimes he sings in nostalgic autobiography; other times, he writes from the perspective of a character in a Ray Bradbury story; occasionally there's a song about having writer's block. He steps between genres without losing his voice, applying his guitar and baritone to compositions that range from folk tunes to jazzy ballads, sarcastic rock songs to swelling indie-rock anthems. Every song is an exercise in carefully-constructed inspiration.