Dan Bryk is an "indie-rock" singer slash songwriter originally from Toronto, Canada, but currently based in the sprawling Chapel Hill, NC music scene.

Bryk's last full-length CD Lovers Leap was released in 2000 by New York's Scratchie Records to broad critical acclaim and a steadily growing audience appreciative of his classic pop stylings and literate, frequently confessional lyrics.

Lovers Leap, out of print the past four years, has developed a devoted cult following thanks to filesharing and post-facto raves from places like Pitchfork (who opine "Bryk has three assets that help his classic piano-man style find purchase in this cynical age: A fatally gorgeous and tactfully deployed falsetto, a minutely specific worldview, and a dash of lo-fi indie rockery to deflate accusations of retrofetish... a sparkling pop palimpsest.") Recorded with an eclectic cast of Toronto luminaries (including Kurt Swinghammer, Danny Michel, Howie Beck, Chris Warren, Kyp Harness and featuring members of the Supers, Jacksoul, Sarah Harmer's and Sarah McLachlan's bands) and mixed by Jim Rondinelli (Sloan, Matthew Sweet, Wilco), Lovers Leap packs a surprising punch for an "indie rock" album (and it will finally be back in print in 2007 with unreleased bonus tracks, expanded artwork and liner notes!)

Bryk re-emerged in 2006 from five years of Scratchie and INS-induced silence with two releases: the single We Don't Care on Florida's Pop Up Records, and Dan Bryk Christmas Record, a seasonal mini-LP mixing originals and covers and NO traditional carols.

Pop Psychology, the long-delayed follow-up to Lovers Leap, will be released in early 2007.

(Un-)apologetically Canadian, Bryk has nonetheless toured throughout the US solo and within varying bands, and toured Japan with Stephen Malkmus for Lovers Leap's release there. Bryk has shared stages with many great alt-pop singer-songwriters like Fountains of Wayne, Ron Sexsmith, Teddy Thompson, Jason Collett, Lee Feldman, Sarah Slean, Chris Mills, Django Haskins, Eleni Mandell, Noam Weinstein, Amy Correia, Steve Wynn and Hayden.

Dan also plays and records with Chapel Hill bands Down By Avalon, and The Balance, and has performed sideman duties with the likes of Spookey Ruben and (Hershel Savage and) the American Flag. He has produced and recorded the Flag, the Bicycles and Django Haskins as well as much of his own work in his home studio Flabby Road.

Fans of great pop music would do well to keep an eye on Dan Bryk.

Quotes:

"Nicely twisted confessional pop... Rufus Wainwright meets Ben Folds, drunk, at a Christmas party" -The Wilmington Star

"The Jimmy Webb of the new millennium" -Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices)

"Songcraft is the game Dan Bryk plays, and he gets a triple-double with about half of the songs he writes." -Grayson Currin, The Independent

"Gemlike acts of idiosyncratic genius... proof of just how exaggerated reports of song's demise remain." - Robert Christgau, Village Voice

"The Greatest Pop Genius You've Never Heard Of" -Tokyo Metropolis

"Best Canadian Export since Loverboy" -Chris Collingwood (Fountains of Wayne)