I’m based in Victoria, BC. I’ve been creating experimental music since 2013. I’ve had played well over a hundred shows nationally. I have explored a plethora of genre-territory including electronic (broadly), free jazz, noise rock, hip-hop, folk, and ambient. I’ve always been preoccupied with capital-G Genre. I think of my work as such: ‘Genre music’, the same way one talks about ‘Genre film’. Virtuosity is something I admire but do not aspire. This is simply play.

Currently, my primary outlet is experimental released under my own name. My 6th solo studio album, a dub-techno inspired release, Chain of Memories is out now along with a remix companion compilation entitled Re:Coded. Chain of Memories peaked at number 37 most played album across Canadian community radio for the month of March 2022. My next album is called Quick Burger.

I currently perform live periodically doing free-form screamo, usually with Math Rock virtuoso drummer supreme i.o aka Maxwell Patterson. Max and I have started a band called Really Loud Free Jazz with an album forthcoming. I occasionally DJ under the name Love Clifford.

I have retired, after a seven album run, from earnestly white rapping and pursuing my first musical love of hip-hop in collaboration with Chris Stander and Jeremy Ugro under the pseudonym Philip Morris. I am as proud as I am embarrassed by this work, but, I was, unabashedly, really really really really really good at it. I have a spirtual successor of sorts brewing as songwriting-oriented project called Perfect Match (PM).

I used to front a freeform noise-rock band called SCHOOLGIRL. We opened for Deafheaven, Daughters, and Freak Heat Waves. I used to have a prolific lofi project called Formidable Liquorice.

I host a radio show called Problem Child on CFUV 101.9 playing off-beat music. I occasionally conduct interviews for the radio including the likes of JG Thrilwell, Sudan Archives, Bif Naked, Freak Heat Waves, Jordan Castro, and dozens of others. You can find archives of these conversations on YouTube.

From time to time, I have explored mediums outside of sound. I’ve hosted satirical anime panels, performed stand-up comedy, wrote a one-act play put on by an amateur theatre troupe once in Nanaimo called Yes Chef, directed & edited a cinema-verite film called No Bummer Summer with Sean Rea & Vinnie Crawford, and continue on a durational project wherein myself and Reed LeBere review all 200 episodes of Sailor Moon. I am in post-production on another vérité-esque film I made and starred in with John Ledingham called The Promised End that I expect to have out in 2024 pending festival success. I hope to do more.

You can find most of these projects on Reed & I’s YouTube channel: More Lesser No Better. I have spotlighted the best of my non-musical work under the Projects section of the site.

I have a Google Doc filled with thousands of pages of writing I intend to one day publish, some of which you can find on my Substack, Pics of Clifford. I don’t post there much.

Is variety the spice of life or have I spread myself to thin?