Erik Careswell

About Erik Careswell

The 80's are back! ERIK's goal is to combine 80's songwriting styles, with today's production techniques.

ERIK Careswell is a self-produced, self-engineered internet recording artist, and was one of the first 'myspace-created celebrities'. You can still type his name into google and get around 4 full pages on him!

4 cds so far: FLAWED. Freak Of Nature, A Road Less Travelled, and ENGINES!

Recording out of his home studio, he performs every track on every one of the more than 500 songs he's written. He neither owns nor believes in auto-tune, and feels music should express the artist, not the engineer or producer or label.

"..It may be a little grainy or pitchy or uneven.. but it's all me! (laughs).."

ERIK Careswell is from a long family lineage of performers, singers, actors, back to the old Vaudville days. He developed an interest in music at a very young age, and began learning various instruments. As a teenager he discovered songwriting and, has since, written over 500 original songs.

Unfortunately, his family was plagued with mental illness, himself included, so the road was not an easy one. In his first cd, FLAWED, each song tackles a facet of mental illness, in hopes of expressing it in such a way, that others who are suffering might identify and maybe feel less alone.

In and out of various bands over the years, his love of music eventually led him to start producing his own cds. With the advent of the internet, and sites like My Space and (expired link) popping out, he was able to become one of the very first internet celebrities. His 1st single Undone shot up the charts at (expired link), landing him in the company of Avril Lavigne and Alannis Morrisette!

Soon MySpace noticed his music as well, and ERIK's next and most successful cd A Road Less Travelled landed the single Emerging as the 1st track of their first official Podcast.

Since then, his music has found it's way onto US television series' like Dante's Cove and The Lair , as well as films, like the controversial documentary Hybristophilia.

ERIK has released 4 cds so far: Flawed, Freak Of Nature, A Road Less Travelled,
and Engines, and it currently at work on the next 2 projects A Mindless Pop Dirge and Sexodus!

Asked to describe his music: "...I guess alot of alternative influences, but also the big classic rock artists of the 70s and 80s... T-Rex, Bowie, Supertramp, Toto.. and of the grunge and industrial stuff like NIN, Silverchair, Manson. I go out of my way to make my music rough and indie. Can't tell you enough how much I hate all the perfectly produced and auto-tuned sounds of today. My beats are a little irregular, some pitch here and there.. but leave it that way. Otherwise it's no longer art, if it ever is haha..."