After a long wait, KROY, the stage name of pluridisciplinary artist Camille Poliquin (Milk & Bone), returns to unveil the fruits of her lyrical and musical explorations in a new album, MILITIA, set for release on August 16, 2024. The musician’s new work features dark pop melodies inspired by love, sadness and depression.

The body of work is as old as it is new, some songs rooted in late teen years, others from the dawn of one’s 30s. Every single one of them drenched in sadness and despair, from different perspectives of mania and depression. A portrait of a girl’s evolution through her twenties, gathering confidence, losing it entirely, testing out different personalities, just to come back closer to who she really is. In this case, a sad sad girl who loves alot and may be obsessed with the idea of death and cars and robots.

Her deeply personal approach to music and her bold pop explorations have seen her accumulate millions of plays on streaming platforms. KROY has been described as a visionary artist and Montreal’s queen of electropop and is known for her soaring voice, synth-pop melodies and brooding lyrics.

In the fall of 2016, KROY released her debut solo album SCAVENGER. With hypnotic electro rhythms and lyrics dominated by stories of impossible love, the album draws inspiration from spacey trip-hop (Goldfrapp, Portishead) and inventive modern pop (Vampire Weekend, Youth Lagoon). SCAVENGER’s whirlwind of synths has garnered praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Nylon, FADER, Complex, Noisey and more. Reflecting KROY's polished black-and-white imagery, the cover won a prize at the 2017 Grafika Awards. The album’s success has also allowed KROY to perform throughout Canada and abroad, including New York and Paris, Le Printemps de Bourges, Austin (SXSW), Hamburg (The Reeperbahn) and Montreal (Osheaga). Between 2020 and 2023, the musician collaborated with Belgium-born producer Apashe, Canadian producer Felix Cartal, Korean producer QRION.

To express her forward and varied interests, Camille likes to say that, much like Seinfeld’s George Costanza, she could’ve become a marine biologist or an architect had she not turned her attention to music. On top of the success of KROY and her collaborative band Milk & Bone, the musician, who completed studies in orchestral composition, has crafted music for two Cirque du Soleil shows and several feature films with bandmate Laurence Lafond-Beaulne, including the theme song for King Dave for which the pair earned a nomination at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards. Poliquin has also written the original music for the 2019 documentary Sisterhood, as well as the 17 episodes of Canadian TV series L’Empereur (Crave and Prime). Multiple KROY songs have been selected to play in feature films and TV series throughout the years.