artist North Atlantic Explorers

NORTH ATLANTIC EXPLORERS are captained by Vancouver, B.C.’s Glenn D’Cruze who stepped out from behind the drum kit to navigate his own ship. Glenn played with Vancouver bands who released albums on Mint Records and Nettwerk Productions and performed in thirteen countries, including South-By-Southwest in Austin, Texas and Denmark’s Roskilde Festival with legends like Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Uncle Tupelo, and Sonic Youth. He also currently plays with Anniedale Recording Artists Jonathan Inc. Skylines is the debut record from North Atlantic Explorers on Anniedale Records. It’s a beautiful, engaging, and sonically stimulating record flavoured with strings, horns, loops, samples, vibes, xylophones, banjo, upright bass and vintage organs and pianos, with Glenn handling the songwriting and much of the instrumentation including lead vocals, guitars, drums, and piano. Skylines contains hypnotic, eight minute epics, 1930's style ballads, swirly, futuristic tracks, lazy, spacious country, atmospheric instrumentals, and multi-layered orchestration. PRESS: “... the best ‘out of the blue, I never heard of this artist and man does it blow me away’ album I heard last year (advance copy). A gorgeous ethereal album of long-haul songs. It takes the best of the moody Mercury Rev soundscapes and combines them with the melodic pop sensibility of Luna ...” (The Westender)

Glenn D'Cruze Songwriter