Description
Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
Montreal, Canada is never short of new bands making smart pop with an experimental twist, and retro-nodding duo She-Devils are tricksters of the highest order. Audrey Ann Boucher and Kyle Jukka are the She Devils a duo crafting intimate, dusty hybrid pop that searches for cosmic meaning in vintage sounds.
Through primitive electronic gear, hypnotist vocals and an “amusement park of sounds,” the duo ‘She-Devils’ album constructs a fun-house world of beautiful chaos. The music is built from original sonics inspired by everything from Iggy Pop to Madonna to T-Rex to Can, as well as the romantic longing of 60s yé-yé. but the pair never sound beholden to previous eras. In fact, by burrowing deep into the past, you sense She-Devils are aware of some future truth that the rest of us aren’t privy to.
Striving to make music that feels “as visual as possible,” the band hopes to strap listeners into a rollercoaster ride “with Audrey’s voice as the centrepiece to cling to.” The duo is inspired by the cinema and art of Gregg Araki, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, John Waters and Quentin Tarantino. They direct their own videos, and Audrey creates the artwork that accompanies the music. Her self-taught style evolved by watching hours of Disney movies, The Simpsons and Powerpuff Girls.