Dave Norris
Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Established. Jan 01, 2008 | SELF
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The band unleashes seriously swooshy instrumental largesse over eight tunes that cover off consumerism in the record industry (“Song for an Ad”), music as healer of mental ailing (“Woe Is Me”) and celeb obsession (“Courtney L.”). - Ottawa Magazine
"No Scuttle shows that there's a lot more to Norris than just being a guy with a guitar." - i (heart) music - Blog
"The EP kicks off with one of the most delightfully melodic tracks you'll hear this year, "Goodbye Michelle".
Norris and company prove to be more than mere popsters though. "Two Can Play" is slow to start, but broadens into in expansive atmospheric track by the time it closes. "
http://www.snobsmusic.net/2010/10/dave-norrislocal-ivan-new-thoughts-ep.html - Snob's Music (Toronto)
"...here sit a solid eight tracks of pop-inflected indie rock. Sweet melodies and humour (such as the infectious and tongue-in-cheek Song for an Ad and Million Dollars) are pervasive, while a Ron Sexsmith-esque tonality is eerily omnipresent in Dave Norris’s delivery. A solid and well-crafted first outing." - Ottawa Xpress (Voir, Hour Community)
"...the pervasive influence of pop culture is fully explored in songs like Song for An Ad, Million Dollars and Courtney L. With its catchy motif, Song for an Ad could easily be used to sell something, but it’s actually about a young man who buys into the promise of advertising. - The Ottawa Citizen
"...the pervasive influence of pop culture is fully explored in songs like Song for An Ad, Million Dollars and Courtney L. With its catchy motif, Song for an Ad could easily be used to sell something, but it’s actually about a young man who buys into the promise of advertising. - The Ottawa Citizen
He's a Dylan-meets-Springsteen-style rocker, singing lyrically interesting songs in an impassioned voice...
http://www.iheartmusic.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1414-Exactly-Off-dead-on.html - i (heart) music
He's a Dylan-meets-Springsteen-style rocker, singing lyrically interesting songs in an impassioned voice...
http://www.iheartmusic.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1414-Exactly-Off-dead-on.html - i (heart) music
Dave's infectious tune Under the Water is one of those "should-be-famous songs" that swaggers into your headphones like it's been hanging around the Elvis Costellos and Apostle of Hustles of the music world for the last decade...
http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2009/02/New-Music-Canada-Track-of-the-Day-February-10-Dave-Norris-Under-the-Water - Amanda Putz (CBC Radio 3)
Admittedly, I'm new to Dave Norris and his musical endeavors but the Ottawa native strides forward with a confidence all too often lacking in today's music scene. In ten-minutes, he gives you four songs that grab you on first note and show how much potential Dave's new set-up has to offer.
The flowing melody the band delivers on Whatever's Wrong With Heather is a terrific hook (rim-shot please!) to kickoff the EP and the percussion and synths that bulk up the catchy Look Out! show how crucial the support from Local Ivan is to the results, but it's Dave's voice that holds everything together and moving forward. The change of pace and gradual build of Jack Nicholson shows the control the band has over their sound and the use of electronics, strings and warbled synths on No Scuttle probably shouldn't fit in with the other three songs on the EP, but it's just a rewarding as any other song.
Four songs and ten minutes is not long enough to really gauge how Norris & Local Ivan will work together as a full course meal, but as an amuse bouche, No Scuttle should get music fans salivating accordingly.
http://www.herohill.com/2010/03/swing-ep-in-my-jeep-dark-mean-and-dave.htm - Herohill
Admittedly, I'm new to Dave Norris and his musical endeavors but the Ottawa native strides forward with a confidence all too often lacking in today's music scene. In ten-minutes, he gives you four songs that grab you on first note and show how much potential Dave's new set-up has to offer.
The flowing melody the band delivers on Whatever's Wrong With Heather is a terrific hook (rim-shot please!) to kickoff the EP and the percussion and synths that bulk up the catchy Look Out! show how crucial the support from Local Ivan is to the results, but it's Dave's voice that holds everything together and moving forward. The change of pace and gradual build of Jack Nicholson shows the control the band has over their sound and the use of electronics, strings and warbled synths on No Scuttle probably shouldn't fit in with the other three songs on the EP, but it's just a rewarding as any other song.
Four songs and ten minutes is not long enough to really gauge how Norris & Local Ivan will work together as a full course meal, but as an amuse bouche, No Scuttle should get music fans salivating accordingly.
http://www.herohill.com/2010/03/swing-ep-in-my-jeep-dark-mean-and-dave.htm - Herohill
Discography
Still working on that hot first release.
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Bio
Dave Norris is a singer-songwriter from Toronto by way of Ottawa with a penchant for cutting lyrics and intricate tunes. With elements drawn from 60s folk greats and 90s alt-rock, this first foray into solo work showcases Norris' effortlessly clever wordplay and honeyed tenor.
Norris skillfully erects folk influenced, off-kilter song structures. His velvety timbre softens the blow of lyrical grenades he lobs at listeners asking them to confront the realities of hyper-modernity, loneliness and the pitfalls of a hurried life in The Big Smoke.
Norris has previously performed at Ottawa Bluesfest, JUNO Fest, Ottawa Folk Fest, NXNE, CMW and shared a stage with Hayden, Cuff the Duke, the Good Lovelies, Wilderness of Manitoba and Twin Forks, among others.
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