John Southworth

A mercurial English-Canadian singer/songwriter of great craft, elegance, and wit, John Southworth has consistently painted the corners of smart pop eccentricity since arriving on the Toronto scene in the late '90s. With a penchant for thematic projects with a literate bent, Southworth's shapeshifting music ranges from the quirky indie pop of releases like 2000's Banff Springs Transylvania and 2004's Yosemite to 2012's lush, orchestral Easterween and the understated jazz and folk of his 2014 double-LP masterwork Niagara. A former film student who directs all of his own videos a...