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Fiver Trois presents Cleaning House (You've Changed Records)
Add date: 7.21.2026
Release date: 7.10.2026
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Fiver is the musical alias of songwriter, vocalist, researcher, and guitarist Simone Schmidt. Schmidt has been innovating in the Country and Folk music traditions with humour and gravity for nearly two decades. Their lyrics refuse sloganeering but remain political, deploying wit and poetry to detangle the knot of our human condition under late-stage capitalism. Their collaborators range a wide musical spectrum, from Old Time musicians Lonesome Ace String Band (Audible Songs From Rockwood, 2017) to free music improvisers in Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition (named best music of 2021 by the Guardian UK), to punks Fucked Up, and electronic music producer ADO (Splitter). Despite evading the logic of the commercial music industry, their presence is felt. Their songs are covered widely, most notably by U.S. Girls and Stripmall Ballads. Most recently, their collaboration with Destroyer, the song Bologna, was named one of the Top 100 songs of 2025 by Pitchfork.
Owing to their musical versatility, Schmidt’s been called “a Canadian PJ Harvey” by the “Canadian Rolling Stone” (Exclaim!). Their recordings are critically acclaimed for their warmth and rigour, and have garnered four Polaris Prize nominations. Previously, Schmidt fronted country act One Hundred Dollars and psych unit The Highest Order. As a producer, they’ve worked with Ansley Simpson and Louie Sanchez. They’ve contributed to soundtracks on many films including Brett Story’s Land of Destiny, Sophie Jarvis’ Until Branches Bend, Gillian McKercher’s Circle of Steel and Chelsea McMullan’s World Famous Gopher Hole Museum. In 2022, You’ve Changed Records released The Joe Wallace Mixtape, the soundtrack to A Radiant Sphere by filmmaker Sara Wiley.
Born and raised in Toronto, child of a Gottscheer immigrant and an Irish Scot Catholic settler, Schmidt currently lives in Sackville, New Brunswick, Mi’kma’ki. They have toured widely across North America and in Europe, on DIY circuits and festival stages alike. Lately, Schmidt performs live solo and with the Fiver Trois, featuring Jeremy Costello (bass) and Nathan Doucet (drums), and Dani Crowther (pedal steel). If pressed for a musical style, the Fiver Trois fit most neatly under the label Country Prog. They rearrange the music around the strength of the songs with dynamic energy and palpable affection. The live act integrates tight songs with sprawling improvisational passages - there’s no stepping twice into the same show. Fiver’s upcoming full-length “Cleaning House” will be released on You’ve Changed Records on July 2026. Schmidt is also, among other things, an airbrush artist.
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Official Website
Tidal
YouTube
You’ve Changed
Fiver is the musical alias of songwriter, vocalist, researcher, and guitarist Simone Schmidt. Schmidt has been innovating in the Country and Folk music traditions with humour and gravity for nearly two decades. Their lyrics refuse sloganeering but remain political, deploying wit and poetry to detangle the knot of our human condition under late-stage capitalism. Their collaborators range a wide musical spectrum, from Old Time musicians Lonesome Ace String Band (Audible Songs From Rockwood, 2017) to free music improvisers in Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition (named best music of 2021 by the Guardian UK), to punks Fucked Up, and electronic music producer ADO (Splitter). Despite evading the logic of the commercial music industry, their presence is felt. Their songs are covered widely, most notably by U.S. Girls and Stripmall Ballads. Most recently, their collaboration with Destroyer, the song Bologna, was named one of the Top 100 songs of 2025 by Pitchfork.
Owing to their musical versatility, Schmidt’s been called “a Canadian PJ Harvey” by the “Canadian Rolling Stone” (Exclaim!). Their recordings are critically acclaimed for their warmth and rigour, and have garnered four Polaris Prize nominations. Previously, Schmidt fronted country act One Hundred Dollars and psych unit The Highest Order. As a producer, they’ve worked with Ansley Simpson and Louie Sanchez. They’ve contributed to soundtracks on many films including Brett Story’s Land of Destiny, Sophie Jarvis’ Until Branches Bend, Gillian McKercher’s Circle of Steel and Chelsea McMullan’s World Famous Gopher Hole Museum. In 2022, You’ve Changed Records released The Joe Wallace Mixtape, the soundtrack to A Radiant Sphere by filmmaker Sara Wiley.
Born and raised in Toronto, child of a Gottscheer immigrant and an Irish Scot Catholic settler, Schmidt currently lives in Sackville, New Brunswick, Mi’kma’ki. They have toured widely across North America and in Europe, on DIY circuits and festival stages alike. Lately, Schmidt performs live solo and with the Fiver Trois, featuring Jeremy Costello (bass) and Nathan Doucet (drums), and Dani Crowther (pedal steel). If pressed for a musical style, the Fiver Trois fit most neatly under the label Country Prog. They rearrange the music around the strength of the songs with dynamic energy and palpable affection. The live act integrates tight songs with sprawling improvisational passages - there’s no stepping twice into the same show. Fiver’s upcoming full-length “Cleaning House” will be released on You’ve Changed Records on July 2026. Schmidt is also, among other things, an airbrush artist.