KROY ANNOUNCES NEW LP, MILITIA, SET FOR RELEASE AUGUST 16, 2024
TOUR DATES WITH GHOSTLY KISSES CONTINUE THIS WEEK
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 a lot 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.”
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.”
TOUR DATES:
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