Mike Tod is a folk musician, film composer, and ethnomusicologist, reimagining old-time folk songs into darkly atmospheric sound worlds through expansive, cinematic production. From Canada and now based in Nashville, he has spent over a decade honoring the history of North American folk music while pushing its boundaries into bold and innovative sonic terrain.
Tod's self-titled debut LP (2023) received national acclaim--topping Canadian college radio charts, earning over 430,000 Spotify streams, and drawing praise from CBC Music, NPR, and over 50 media outlets internationally.
Reviewers have called his music "haunting and cinematic in scope" (Glide Magazine, US), "wonderfully dark and ominous...a psychological horror tale" (Various Small Flames, UK), "showcases the dark underbelly of folk music" (The Arts Desk, IE), "raw and haunting and bleak" (Roots Music, CA), and "lending it a dark southern gothic feel" (Folk Radio, UK).
It's said that to know where we're going, we must know where we've been. Mike Tod reminds us that the past, present, and future are inexorably linked in song.
