Chris Thompson is a Canadian musician who has performed in a variety of Maritime

Maritimes

The Maritime provinces, also called the Maritimes or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. On the Atlantic coast, the Maritimes are a subregion of Atlantic Canada, which also includes the...

 bands, including Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s...

, The Memories Attack

The Memories Attack

The Memories Attack is a Canadian indie pop duo from Atlantic Canada. The group consists of Eric's Trip guitarist Chris Thompson and Ron Bates of the pop group Orange Glass...

, Orange Glass, and his solo project Moon Socket. Although Thompson was born in Ottawa, his family moved to Moncton, New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

 when he was five years old. Thompson began Moon Socket before Eric's Trip had broken up.

Thompson contributed to former Eric's Trip bandmate Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

's 2007 album Woke Myself Up

Woke Myself Up

Woke Myself Up is an album by Julie Doiron, released in 2007.Doiron's former Eric's Trip bandmate Rick White produced and played on the album. Three songs on the album — "I Woke Myself Up", "No More" and "The Wrong Guy" — also include contributions by Mark Gaudet and Chris Thompson, the other two...

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LPs

• Moon Socket (1995)
• The Best Thing] (1996)
• Take the Mountain (1997)

EPs

• Spaced-Odd-Ditties (1993)
• Moon Socket (1995)
• Moon Socket (1995)
• It's the End of the Trip (1997)

Singles

• "Accept Fear" (1995)
• "Feeling Around" (1995)
• "I Want Now" (1996)