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April 29th, 2024

Täbï Yösha takes home the award for Musical Revelation of the Year at Gala Dynastie

Täbï Yösha
April 26th, 2024

Corridor's new album Mimi is out now!

Corridor
April 25th, 2024

Täbï Yösha shares a remix of Loving You With a Broken Heart by Dogzout

Täbï Yösha
April 23rd, 2024

Corridor unveils the song Jump Cut with an enthralling music video, a few days before the release of their new album Mimi on Friday

Corridor
April 19th, 2024

Champion celebrates the 20th anniversary of Chill 'Em All with the first vinyl edition and announces new shows with his G-Strings

DJ Champion
April 19th, 2024

Population II’s new EP Serpent Échelle is out now

Population II
April 18th, 2024

Joe Rocca shares R&B ballad Amours et Contradictions and announces the release of Hybride, his sophomore solo album

Joe Rocca
April 17th, 2024

Population II unveils Comme tu le souhaites (Ding Dong) two days before the release of their new EP Serpent Échelle

Population II
April 11th, 2024

Virginie B pays an irresistible tribute to femininity on hana

Virginie B
April 5th, 2024

Annie-Claude Deschênes releases LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE, her debut album

Annie-Claude Deschênes
April 3rd, 2024

Annie-Claude Deschênes unveils the title track of debut album LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE two days before its release

Annie-Claude Deschênes
March 26th, 2024

Joe Rocca announces the release of Hybride, his sophomore album

Joe Rocca
March 26th, 2024

Elisapie wins the JUNO Award for Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year

Elisapie
March 13th, 2024

Annie-Claude Deschênes reveals the details of her debut solo album LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE

Annie-Claude Deschênes
March 12th, 2024

Population II announces new EP Serpent Échelle and unveils the single R.B.

Population II
March 6th, 2024

Corridor shares new synth-forward single Mon Argent, off their upcoming album Mimi

Corridor
March 1st, 2024

Elisapie delves into a childhood memory in the music video for Sinnatuumait, her cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams

Elisapie
February 29th, 2024

Joe Rocca opens up about his insecurities on new single Qui d'Autre

Joe Rocca
February 28th, 2024

Virginie B goes full-on hyperpop on Madone, her first single via Bonsound

Virginie B
February 21st, 2024

Folk singer-songwriter Shaina Hayes unveils Kindergarten Heart, her sophomore album

Shaina Hayes

Annie-Claude Deschênes signs with Bonsound and releases MENACE MINIMALE, a dystopic yet catchy first single

A key figure on the Montreal independent music scene for almost twenty years, Annie-Claude Deschênes (Duchess Says, PyPy) reveals the first single from her solo project, MENACE MINIMALE, which infuses the melodies and rhythms of synthpop with an eerie sense of tension. The song is a joint release between Bonsound (Canada) and Italians Do It Better (rest of the world).

In this ode to ephemerality, Annie-Claude seeks to redefine her thought patterns under the pressure of time. The grinding bassline gives a menacing tone to the track, while the urgent and cadenced rhythms evoke humanity’s constant race against its own obsolescence. The result gives the impression of dancing to the sound of minutes lost forever under the judgmental gaze of surveillance cameras and introspection.

Over the course of the last two decades, Annie-Claude Deschênes made her mark as a singer, musician, songwriter, performer and visual artist with Duchess Says and PyPy, two bands that are known as much for their electrifying performances as for their artistic sensibility. She shared the stage with a number of internationally renowned artists, including The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Black Lips, The Hives, The Hot Snakes and Buzzcocks, among others. Duchess Says and PyPy's extensive touring has taken her all over North America and Europe, playing venues, bars and festivals (Primavera Fest, Eurockéennes de Belfort, OSHEAGA, Sled Island, etc.) as well as golf courses, factories and churches.

The artist’s exploratory approach to staging and sound design takes a new direction with the genesis of this solo project: the urgency that characterizes her work remains, but frustration and aggression give way to introspection and vulnerability. Annie-Claude Deschênes explores and reinvents herself under her own name, driven by a constant need to create outside of her comfort zone while bending the pre-established conventions of stage presence.

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