Waterslide

“Inspired song structure, thematic consistency and depth, excellent instrumentation, original and compelling lyrics, the human touch, rock tradition, songwriting superiority, vocal harmony, ironic smiles, America, sadness, beauty, and an enveloping sense of personal involvement and connection… Anyone who likes Smog, P.J. Harvey, Dylan, Tom Petty, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, or any of the songwriting greats, will love this.” –Fleabomb.com

Ray EP (2022)

“To the extent that songwriting (and poetry) have rules, the principal one is that you want to be precise enough in the words you choose to draw your audience fully inside a moment, while remaining impressionistic enough to allow the audience to fill in the blanks with their own imagination. It’s something Mark Doyon once again achieves here: there are striking ideas and images and moments, but the meat of the story is left up to the listener to construct in our own minds… Waterslide’s Ray EP is art — five songs, 18 minutes, and an entire world rich with innocence and danger, mystery and revelation, the dark and the light.” –The Daily Vault

Flicker EP (2019)

“Throughout this compact radio play, Doyon draws on images of light flickering, fading, and returning, while exploring the dispassionate whims of fate. By turns subversive, charming, off-kilter and right on the melodic mark, the Flicker EP packs a cinemascope vision into a 19-minute package like a magician pulling a five-bedroom house out of his hat. It’s a hell of a trick and Waterslide’s Mark Doyon is just the top-hatted rogue to pull it off.” –The Daily Vault

“Take Dire Straits, Simple Minds, a generous dollop of Luke Temple, and a sprig of Depeche Mode and you have this remarkably creative set of Americana-tinged power pop songs, whose binding element is Doyon’s phlegmatic, low-slung twang. Opener ‘Skyglow,’ with its epic backing vocals and swirling pedal steel, is like the soundtrack to a massive Kansan dust storm, while ‘Brownout’ adds mandolin segues to spaghetti-goth guitar rumblings. Great stuff here. A+.” –Eric W. Saeger, Hippo Press

Lincoln Signal (2012)

“Doyon is a musical alchemist, an instinctual envelope-pusher who loads familiar pop forms inside a snow globe and shakes them into a blizzard, leaving what remains to settle in familiar, yet thoroughly original new shapes.” –The Daily Vault

“Doyon stakes out his own funny, inventive, and singular corner of the sonic universe in this marvelously offbeat and inspired album. Doyon’s smooth vocals and sharp-’n’-witty lyrics make for a potent double whammy. Musically, this album delivers a richly layered, melodic, and hypnotic sound that buzzes and hums with a startling sense of playfulness and imagination… The crisp arrangements keep things tight and tuneful throughout while the songs take the listener on a captivating trip into an entertainingly idiosyncratic aural world where off-kilter humor, keen observations, and genuinely surprising creativity are the order of the day. A worthwhile foray into the eccentric indie-rock outer limits.” –Joe Wawrzyniak, Jersey Beat

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