Here is a link to my latest, a song called Pages. It’s about our bond with the kindred souls in our lives. Finding our way together through this often stark and relentless world. Seeing each other, rising above the We and Them, while the city rages on beneath, between and behind us.

Please take a few minutes and have a listen. If you dig, it would mean a lot to me if you bought a copy. It’s a pay what you can thang. Please also share the heck out of it.  

Here’s to art and connection in hard times.

Please visit my site to purchase a copy of Pages: https://kelvinwetherell.com/pages-2/

Pages

I wrote Ghost Ship for us. The tune was written just after lockdown in 2020. As with everything I do, I take my time with music. I thought the track might lose it’s meaning, as we’re, thankfully, slowly rising out of the ashes of these long months of isolation and dread. Instead, it now feels like an epitaph to the pandemic. A bye-bye and fuck you, while we rise in Love, rejoicing in the end of our lost togetherness.

Please visit my site to purchase a copy of Ghost Ship: https://kelvinwetherell.com/ghost-ship-2/

Ghost Ship

Be My Mystery is my summer love song for 2022, that I’m releasing in the fall of 2022, because I was too busy enjoying summer to sit at my laptop and organize a release in the actual summertime! I finished recording it back in the late winter/early spring. It’s a bit of a departure for me. I’m a romantic at heart, but, strangely, that rarely makes its way into my writing. At least not romantic love. I’ve always written about the more search-worthy aspects of life, and there’s enough tragic heroism in our day to day to fill more volumes of song than I could ever hope to pen in this lifetime. The thing I’m singing about here is the mm-mmm goodness of that feeling you get when romantic love is new, and you lean into the yearning for your flame and smoulder in the memory of your last embrace. When it’s on, there’s nothing like it. And, if you’re one of the lucky ones, the love and yearning remain, and grow deeper with the passage of time. Here’s to new love and love everlasting.

Please click here to visit my site and purchase Be My Mystery:https://kelvinwetherell.com/be-my-mystery/

Be My Mystery Mp3

Slow Dance With Me is my latest track, from the upcoming Stereophile EP. The song was inspired by a wander through the Don Trail in Toronto, where we came upon someone’s creative addition to the city’s warnings to cyclists, lest they run down some unsuspecting sod walking the path. The words touch on our common threads and the things that keep us apart. Please consider adding it to your playlist. Links to buy are below the player on my site. Link is below. Thanks for listening…

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Slow Dance With Me

A REIMAGINING OF THE 1968 SONG, WRITTEN AND ORIGINALLY RECORDED BY DESMOND DEKKER

Fu Man Chu (Desmond Dekker cover)

Stereophile is the latest full length record by singer/songwriter Kelvin Wetherell. The digital release is accompanied by a small format book of lyrics and images. These songs see Kelvin's influences, from Black Sabbath to Gordon Lightfoot to the Wailers, in full swing. Raw, soulful and beautiful are the words most often used to describe his sound. At once mournful and hopeful, Stereophile bears witness to our lost connection, with ourselves and each other, in the crush of the modern age.

To purchase the book and record, please visit the buy link here. It's $16.95 for both. Once you've placed your order, please email us at kdub@kelvinwetherell.com and we'll send you your copy of the book (shipping rates may apply for shipment outside of Canada). Thanks so much for your support!

The Beautiful Season

“How Did We Get Here” is a boppy, pop-punk track about second chances vs. leaving the past behind.  

Released on February 20, 2025 via Swear Word Records
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Song Credits:
Vocals/Songwriter: Kristen Goetz
Guitar/Songwriter: Nolan Jodes
Drums: Waz Jenko
Bass: Dave Haley
Mix: Ryan McDonald // Lionheart Sound Co.
Master: Kristian Montano // Montano Mastering
Recorded at Unified Recorders by Frank Ditillio

Stream "How Did We Get Here" on all platforms: 
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How Did We Get Here

"ill at ease" is a moody alt rock track that captures the chaos of panic attacks and severe anxiety, written from a very personal place. The song balances vulnerability with explosive rock moments, showcasing the band's darker, more intense style. 

Stream "ill at ease" everywhere: lnk.to/illatease

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Lyrics:
Nowhere to hide
Dread lives behind my eyes
Falter and fail
Common sense won't prevail

And I just can't catch my breath right now
Words evade me and I fall
Ill at ease inside my head right now
and I
Can't escape this fear at all

Crawl back inside
Though there's no calm to find
Cant claim my mind
Heart racing triple time


And I just can't catch my breath right now
Words evade me and I fall
Ill at ease inside my head right now
And I
Can't escape this fear at all

Like a shadow, but shadows can't move alone
Always tethered to me, wherever I go
Fake it like I'm self-assured and in control
But inside I'm torn apart, was I ever whole?

You can't see it, can't see it at all
but I feel it, I feel it all 
can't see it
you can't see what I feel at all

You can't see it, can't see it at all
but I feel it, I feel it all 
can't see it
you can't see what I feel at all

And I just can't catch my breath right now
Words evade me and i fall
Ill at ease inside my head right now
And I
Can't escape this fear at all

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Credits:
Vocals/Songwriter: Kristen Goetz
Guitar/Songwriter: Nolan Jodes
Drums: Waz Jenko
Bass: Dave Haley
Mix: Ken Meehan
Master: Kristian Montano // Montano Mastering
Recorded at Unified Recorders by Frank Ditillio
Cover Art Photo: Mark Venditelli
Released on Swear Word Records

ill at ease

Kelvin’s songs lean into life in all its battered glory.

His poetic, image-rich lyrics riff on self-awareness and our commonality in a world distracted. Coupled with music born of a love for rock ‘n’ roll, roots, reggae and old school R&B, the groove that accompanies the message is deep and wide.

“Raw,” “soulful,” and “beautiful” are the words most often used to describe his sound. Kelvin’s voice is timeless, inspired by such greats as Sam Cooke, Nick Cave, Bob Marley and Johnny Cash. His guitar style blends acoustic fingerpicking and percussive, tribal elements

Kelvin’s music has taken him to Nashville, where he cut his teeth with some top shelf producers and players. He’s toured through Europe, across the Great White North, and back. As a result, people all over the world have been turned on to his work.

A multi-instrumentalist, Kelvin’s live show incorporates orchestral elements, live drum/vocal loops, top shelf tunes and a whole lotta love. Picture Gordon Lightfoot hanging with The Wailers at a Black Sabbath concert. It’s a Folk Sabbath kinda thing.

2025 sees Kelvin releasing and supporting Stereophile, the new full length record and accompanying 28 page small format book.

Ghost Ship

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