The Secret Beach isn’t easily defined. It’s not exactly a band (though it sometimes is), and it’s not quite a studio (although that’s part of it). It isn’t simply a vehicle for Micah’s recordings, even if he is central to the project. Its nature is shifting and resistant to being pinned down by genre or marketing language. What can be said with certainty is that music is the thing—and that music is inseparable from what surrounds it: connection, trust, and shared experience.

Alongside Micah, the project currently includes two core collaborators: Daniel Diamond, a lifelong friend and creative co-conspirator, and Kacy Lee Anderson, Micah’s partner and one half of the critically acclaimed Saskatchewan country duo Kacy & Clayton. Their closeness is audible in the songs: unhurried, lived-in, and harmonically intimate, as if the voices are learning the shape of each other in real time.

The project remains deliberately fluid. On stage, The Secret Beach may appear as a full band, a duo, or a solo performance—often Erenberg and Anderson—but no matter the form, the live experience carries the same spontaneity, warmth, and casual camaraderie found on the recordings. The studio itself moves between Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and anywhere else that Micah finds himself. But music is always coming, because making music is always what matters most.

“There are no rules anymore,” Micah says from another makeshift studio somewhere in the Prairies. “Commercial success is not something you can attend to. You have no control over it. So you might as well take care of the things you can control—the things you make.”

Whatever grows from that is what The Secret Beach will be.