KROY’S NEW ALBUM, MILITIA, OUT TODAY, SHARES “SATIN SATAN”

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Today, Montreal’s KROY, the stage name of pluridisciplinary artist Camille Poliquin (Milk & Bone), releases, MILITIA, an album teeming with 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.

On album track “SATIN SATAN”, KROY embraces a cards-on-the-table approach in describing a toxic relationship. Her bubblegum vocals and cheery drum machine contrast with the matter at hand, an easy feat for an artist accustomed to the liminal spaces between mania and depression. 

WATCH / SHARE “SATIN SATAN” LYRIC VIDEO HERE

Fresh off an appearance at the Montreal Jazz Festival mainstage, KROY is preparing for fall touring through North America including a headline POP Montreal show supporting her new album MILITIA. Full tour dates can be found below with more dates to be added in the near future.

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.

WATCH / SHARE “SALTWATER” HERE
BUY / STREAM “SALTWATER” HERE

WATCH / SHARE “JOLIGENTIL” HERE
BUY / STREAM “JOLIGENTIL” HERE

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. 

BUY / STREAM MILITIA HERE

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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
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

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KROY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, MILITIA, SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “SALTWATER”

KROY ANNOUNCES NEW LP, MILITIA, SET FOR RELEASE AUGUST 16, 2024 

WATCH / SHARE “SALTWATER” HERE
BUY / STREAM “SALTWATER” HERE

PRE-SAVE MILITIA HERE

TOUR DATES WITH GHOSTLY KISSES CONTINUE THIS WEEK

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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."

WATCH / SHARE “SALTWATER” HERE
BUY / STREAM “SALTWATER” HERE

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.”

WATCH / SHARE “JOLIGENTIL” HERE
BUY / STREAM “JOLIGENTIL” HERE

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. 

PRE-SAVE MILITIA HERE

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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

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KROY SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “JOLIGENTIL” 

JUNO AWARD WINNER AND TWO-TIME POLARIS-LONGLISTER FROM MILK & BONE, RETURNS WITH NEW VIDEO FOR “JOLIGENTIL” 

WATCH / SHARE “JOLIGENTIL” HERE
BUY / STREAM “JOLIGENTIL” HERE

“JOLIGENTIL” INCLUDED ON BLOODMOON SAMPLER, AVAILABLE HERE
VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR

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Embracing the loneliness that comes after the fireworks and examining the power dynamics present in intimate connections, the new single from KROY, “JOLIGENTIL”, is a powerful, vulnerable journey through love and murder. KROY is the stage name of singer, songwriter and composer Camille Poliquin, the Montreal singer-songwriter and half of JUNO Award-winning duo Milk & Bone. KROY’s deeply personal approach to music and her bold pop explorations have seen her accumulate millions of streams and has been described as a visionary artist and Montreal’s queen of electropop, known for her soaring voice, synth-pop melodies and brooding lyrics. 

The track arrives with a video from director Gerardo Alcaine who says of the video, “As soon as we sat down and Camille started talking about the KROY universe, I knew I was in for a treat. ‘JOLIGENTIL’ is so moody and textured that it drives you to immediately think visually. We created moodboards separately and ended up with almost identical references. There was so much empathy in the collaboration which rendered communicating our ideas effortless. We surrounded ourselves with a small but extremely dedicated team, and it shows in the final result. In ‘JOLIGENTIL’, we find a KROY in an anxious, paralyzed state at someone else’s mercy. She becomes a sort of lab experiment in constant observation. We explore a contrast of certain detachment, dissociation of the self vs  self-examination. We see her being the target of an external voyeur but also we see her looking at different versions of herself.”

“What a dream to work with this team,” says Camille. “When I met Gerardo to discuss the video, I knew I was in good hands. I tend to have a very clear idea of the visuals that will be part of my world, and I immediately felt that I would be able to express myself freely in our creative process. I've always been obsessed with security cameras (I actually have them in several rooms in my apartment) and I thought it was a simple but visually precise way of conveying the meaning of the piece.”

“I'm alone. I was left alone. But the traces of what was done to me will never truly leave me. And I feel exposed, like a deer in the headlights of a car at night. I'm on the stage, I'm in the screen. I’m alone. My wounds are gaping, but only the sharp eye can recognise them. And only the valiant heart knows not to take advantage of them.”

WATCH / SHARE “JOLIGENTIL” HERE
BUY / STREAM “JOLIGENTIL” HERE

BLOODMOON Artwork // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

BLOODMOON is a sampler of four songs from KROY’S upcoming album MILITIA due out in June. Created by a sad girl who loves a lot, and sometimes too much, BLOODMOON is a journey through euphoria and anxiety, echoing the hypnotic rhythms also found on her acclaimed debut album SCAVENGER, praised by critics (Rolling Stone, Nylon, FADER, Complex, Noisey).

BLOODMOON SAMPLER, AVAILABLE HERE  VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR

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 three critically acclaimed albums and one EP: Chrysalism (2022), 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”.

WATCH / SHARE “DEFENDER” HERE
BUY / STREAM “DEFENDER” HERE

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).

WATCH / SHARE “THE WOLF” LYRIC VIDEO HERE
BUY / STREAM “THE WOLF” HERE

After a long wait and relentless requests from her fans, KROY returns to unveil the fruits of her lyrical and musical explorations with MILITIA. 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) who has brought her to work closely with KUKA. In 2021, she presented ANIMACHINA at the Phi Centre — 7 videos premised on themes of surveillance, terror and animism, featuring her beloved robotic companion KUKA.  KROY continues her work with these robotic titans in parallel to her music.

Watch for more information on MILITIA soon.

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