Maybe Bliss

Brief Bio

Maybe Bliss is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer based in Abbotsford, BC. In April 2025, he released his debut single, Rule Number One , and is set to follow up with multiple genre-spanning albums throughout the year. These projects are either fully recorded, in production, or being finalized for release.

Two upcoming albums, Clever and Thick Skin, feature early work written and recorded in 1984 and 1985. They are rooted in computer/synthesizer and guitar-based compositions and showcase Maybe’s vocals.

After a long hiatus, Maybe returned to music in 2021, leading to the creation of Good Good Morning, an electronic and melodic album. In 2022, he recorded  Ring My Bell, a rhythm-driven project with selective use of vocals. In 2023, he recorded Clouds Go By, a piano-based, introspective album.

Currently, Maybe is ready to release two alt-pop/rock albums—Internet Monster and Maybe Bliss—featuring vocals and guitar, drawn from songs written in late 2023 and early 2024. A definite side project, Modern Crooner is slated for release at year end.

My Story

Hi, welcome. My journey with music started over 40 years ago, and I’d like to take you along for the ride.

Like many aspiring musicians, I had a garage band in my late teens—a punk band. Just as we were getting "good" (relatively speaking), it ended. Frustrated but still driven, I built a home studio in the early 1980s and began recording solo material. In 1984, one of my tracks, Clever, was featured on Vancouver’s Undergrowth 84, a double-cassette compilation. Back then, I released music under the name Crushed Music.

I continued making music for about five or six more years. What started as a dream became a hobby. Life took over—I graduated, got a job, moved, started a family. A former co-worker, a touring folk musician, gave me some sobering advice: prioritize a stable career, and if there's room for music, great—but don’t count on it. He was starting over in his late 30s with no experience outside music.

With the rise of Napster and Limewire in the late '90s, music suddenly felt free and devalued. So, I chose the practical path. I sold all my music gear by the late 1990s. For 35 plus years, it was crickets.

Then in 2020, during the pandemic and a particularly snowy winter, I started exploring DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations). I had an old laptop—under powered, but enough to experiment. I began with Ableton Intro and a small MIDI keyboard. That experimentation led to my 2021 album, Good Good Morning.

In September 2022, I bought an acoustic guitar and fell back in love with the tactile feedback of a real instrument. I was basically a beginner again, but I stuck to a disciplined practice routine. I used online resources to learn—something that didn’t exist back in the day. I collected over 200 songs and played for hours daily, moving from simple pieces to more challenging ones.

That year, I also wrote Ring My Bell. Looking back, it was a transition album—still keyboard-based, no guitar yet, but my songwriting was flowing again and I started using vocals.

In 2023, I bought an 88-key keyboard. I’d played piano years before, just for fun, and now wanted to take it more seriously. I still prefer the feel of a guitar, but there’s something deeply expressive about a real piano. That year, gazing out my basement window during late summer, I wrote As the Clouds Go By. It was composed very differently than my guitar songs—built on themes I practised repeatedly until they flowed naturally.

In August 2023, I added an electric guitar and amp. While practising a Motorhead cover on acoustic, I realized I needed proper gear. By November, I began upgrading my home studio. By December, I was recording Internet Monster. I had already completed about 30 DAW covers to learn the software. Learning the tools first made a huge difference.

In early 2024, I upgraded to a professional-level DAW, which significantly improved production quality. That inspired me to revisit my old recordings. Thanks to my younger self, I had digitized reel-to-reel tapes in the late '90s into MP3s. Using those files, I carefully produced the albums Clever and Thick Skin, aiming to stay true to the original recordings while enhancing the sound.

Around the same time, I started writing songs for Maybe Bliss. Originally intended for Internet Monster, these newer songs felt like a separate creative phase—so they became their own project. 

Along the way I also started writing and recording songs for Modern Crooner, which is completely different, and  was released December 2025. 

A live version of an early song, Vegetation on Mars was released February 6, 2025. 

Another single is planned after that ...

An  EP or album, is in the works ...

Influences

What are my influences? Honestly—everything. In my early years, I listened to everything from Supertramp to the Sex Pistols, Bowie to Depeche Mode. Growing up in Vancouver, DOA was my local favorite. The Ramones were my teen go-to, and I still love Iggy Pop. I also enjoy classical composers like Bach, Rossini, Shostakovich, and Mozart. The list could go on forever.