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"The bubbling synth soundscape Jay creates becomes a place of solace, where she tries to shake off her concerns; thankfully she leaves plenty of space for others to not only relate, but to join in on the dance party. ... a welcome return into the colourful mind of Jay."
CBC Music on "Eckhaus Latta"
“a woozy bedroom pop track that sets Jay's infinitely relatable lyrics to an infectious beat driven by arpeggiated synths” Exclaim! On “Excuses”
“a hooky slice of honest indie-pop.” The Line Of Best Fit on “Undertow”
“Elements of dream-pop collide masterfully with lo-fi hip hop, and 60's pop stylings unite with surf-rock tones to name but a few.” Earmilk on “Peanut Butter Song”
“Maddie Jay is an up-and-coming artist to get excited about.” FLOOD Magazine
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Last month, Maddie Jay was honored as Spotify x RADAR Canada’s flagship artist for July, supporting her new single “Name Your Price”. Today, she follows up with “I’m The Leader”, a song written when “I was trying to convince someone to be in love with me,” she says. “I was listening to a song by the artist Lewis Taylor where he described his love interest as ‘the leader of the band’ and I imagined myself as the woman in the song. A lot of the time the societal powers men have can leave me feeling really helpless, and one of the few times I can sense my leverage is when I know someone is attracted to me.
“Sometimes it feels like I am trying to heal all of the pain men have caused me in my life by winning over one specific guy. I feel a similar sort of leverage when I am making my own music and have full creative control and those feelings are both really intoxicating. I produced the song to feel really gentle and seductive and warm but then once you are invested I threw in these really extreme moments of distortion and screaming to represent the extreme emotional fallout of these situations.”
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MORE ABOUT MADDIE JAY
Maddie Jay is a producer/artist and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, CA. Maddie has toured with Remi Wolf, Lorde and Summer Walker, and featured on Grammy Award winning artist RAC’s album Boy. She truly feels she is at her best when she is sitting in her bedroom studio surrounded by Casio synths, drum machines and guitars, twisting knobs and pouring her heart into her computer.