JUNO AWARD WINNER AND TWO-TIME POLARIS-LONGLISTER FROM MILK & BONE, SHARES NEW SINGLE, “DEFENDER”, OUT VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR
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KROY is the stage name of singer, songwriter and composer Camille Poliquin. Her deeply personal approach to music and her bold pop explorations have seen her accumulate millions of streams. 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.
Today, she’s sharing her first new single, “DEFENDER”, which arrives with a video from director Adrian Villagomez. “I knew I wanted to write about the DEFENDER,” says Poliquin. “It being my favourite car definitely has a lot to do with it, but the imagery around the name of the car is also very inspiring to me. The idea of being at the wheel of such a powerful beast, both being protected by it, but also controlling its movements brings me feelings of power and independence.
“Feeling vulnerable and fragile most of the time, I feel like I need to have someone who will take charge and figuratively protect me from the outside world. But, I do love when the balance shifts and I am back in the driver seat, taking the role of the protector.
“Being with someone you trust so much and you are so compatible with that your chaos just matches up. When you’re feeling uneasy and need reassurance you can both show up for each other, but become partners in a heist if the desire occurs.”
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MORE ABOUT KROY
Camille Poliquin released her first songs under the alias KROY in 2014 and was quickly dubbed the next Montreal indie pop sensation. A year later, she began to create music with Laurence Lafond-Beaune, forming the minimalist electro-pop duo Milk & Bone, and together they spawned two critically acclaimed albums and one EP: Little Mourning (2015), Deception Bay (2018) and DIVE (2019).
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 and inventive modern pop. 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). In 2020, the musician collaborated with prolific Belgium-born producer Apashe on the single “Rain”.
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 Milk & Bone, the musician, who completed studies in orchestral composition, has crafted music for two Cirque du Soleil shows and several feature films with Laurence Lafond-Beaune, including the theme song for King Dave for which the pair earned a nomination at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards. Camille has also written the original music for the 2019 documentary Sisterhood, and KROY songs have been selected to create the right feeling in key scenes of multiple major international TV shows. Throughout her career, Camille has won a JUNO Award (2019), a Félix Award (2019), and has been twice long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize (2015 and 2018).
After a long wait and relentless requests from her fans, KROY returns to unveil the fruits of her lyrical and musical explorations in a new album to be released in 2021. The musician’s new work features dark pop melodies inspired by love, death, robots, space and the deep ocean.