KROY ANNOUNCES NEW LP, MILITIA, SET FOR RELEASE AUGUST 16, 2024
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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.
Today, KROY is sharing the new single, “SALTWATER”, which arrives complete with a video from director Gerardo Alcaine, who also directed the video for “JOLIGENTIL”. Of the track, Poliquin says, "releasing this song is so special to me because I've been working on it for quite a while. I had written it for someone else at first, but then got too attached and decided to keep it for myself."
"’SALTWATER’ is a song about leaving them behind and moving forward with your battle scars. It's a song about meeting someone so special you give everything you are to them, and are convinced you've found the person for you. Only to be completely deceived and betrayed. Blood, sweat, tears. It's just saltwater."
"For this song we really wanted to mix both the vulnerable and the violent. The verses are very closed mic'd and soft, and the choruses are sung as a group, and with a lot more power. Max Ant who produced the song has also worked with artists like DJ Snake, Brodinski, Ramengvrl and we were dying to work on something that had an instrumental bridge that just takes you somewhere completely different."
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Director Gerardo Alcaine explains, for the video, “Camille reached out and said ‘I want three IV bags.’ She then went on to explain that these three bags would represent the ‘blood, sweat, tears’ in the lyrics. ‘SALTWATER’ immediately became an extension of the universe we created for ‘JOLIGENTIL’. We had already set a tone, and we decided to explore it further. Yes, it is way more simple than what we had done previously, but it is still charged with energy and emotion, which we explored through moodier lighting and a constant, hypnotizing camera movement.”
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MORE ABOUT KROY
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.
In the time between SCAVENGER and MILITIA, KROY expanded her multidisciplinary practice. In exploring her obsession with robotic arms, she found an indispensable ally (Jonathon Anderson; The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University) who has brought her to work closely with KUKA robots. In 2021, she presented ANIMACHINA at the PHI Centre — a series of 7 videos premised on themes of surveillance, terror and animism, featuring her beloved robotic companion.
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MILITIA TRACKLIST
01 KILLSWITCH
02 DEFENDER
03 SATIN SATAN
04 JOLIGENTIL
05 ALAAT
06 AIRFORCE ONE
07 BLUEBIRD
08 THE WOLF
09 CREATURE
10 GHOST
11 SALTWATER
12 TWELVE WHEELER TRUCK
TOUR DATES // TICKETS HERE
June 14 - San Francisco, CA - Brick & Mortar Music Hall w/ Ghostly Kisses
June 15 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo w/ Ghostly Kisses
July 4 - Montreal, QC - Montreal Jazz Festival, TD Stage
Sept 28 - Montreal, QC - Theatre Fairmont
Oct 12 - Saint-Hyacinthe, QC - Zaricot
Oct 19 - Gatineau, QC - Minotaure
Dec 6 - Sherbrooke, QC - La Petite Boite Noire