Bassist Ciara King describes the track as “an ode to every single burnout episode that any creative has ever had. It’s important to break the fourth wall sometimes and say, ‘this is really hard, isn’t it? You can be exhausted and still love your craft. This one goes out to all our burnt out pals. Keep going.”

“‘sportscar’ is an interesting addition to the deluxe because spittake almost had a different identity. At one point, I considered naming the album Check Engine Light On. I didn’t realize how central the theme of cars was until after writing it.”

“I didn’t intend for something so intimate to become a song, but songs have a funny way of finding you and giving you language for the things you didn’t know you needed to name.”

“It’s about that moment when you’re not sure if your crush feels the same. You want to leave the party, but then they arrive, and suddenly you could stay all night.”

“Everything I write is unfortunately a little too true to life. I’d met this girl in a smoking area, swore off love for 14 months, hadn’t kissed anyone—but couldn’t stay away. I tried a ‘situationship’ for two weeks (what even is that?). I hated it. I would’ve followed her into hell. Joyride is me saying, I’m all in, please don’t hurt me.”

Slick, sultry, and no longer decoding mixed signals, Ron Dadon is done with ambiguity. On her bold new single “Say It,” she confronts the men who can’t decide if they want real love—or just the illusion of it.

“I think the stripped version does it justice while staying close to the demo. The new EP embraces the vulnerability at the heart of her songwriting, harkening back to her roots as a solo acoustic performer while casting the songs in a lush, organic light.

“I wrote ‘Without You’ two days after a breakup. It’s about not knowing who I was without him—not trusting myself not to go back—and feeling stuck in a cycle of being scared to leave and scared to stay.”

Montreal-born singer, songwriter, and producer Mokina returns today with the release of her lush new EP, mirage—a five-track journey through dreamy indie-folk textures and raw emotional honesty.

“‘Seeing Angels’ is about the healing nature of women. It speaks to the kind of love that turns your world upside down, alchemises your pain, and makes you believe in something greater. Makes you believe in angels.”

“Writing Sadgirl was about understanding myself through the wreckage. It’s about letting go of fear and facing the parts of myself I’d spent years avoiding.”

“‘Bad Apple’ is about loving something so deeply only to discover it was harmful, you bit into a bad apple—something that leaves you alone and broken.”

“LOVE YOU BETTER came from wishing I had the ability to love people better than I was capable of. Grief and trauma have shaped the way I connect with others, and the song reflects that — the wish to heal with love, and the painful truth that sometimes love just isn’t enough.”

Montreal multidisciplinary artist Annie-Claude Deschênes returns with Main de Fer, a haunting new single that fuses minimal techno and avant-garde into a disorienting soundscape of emotional isolation and psychological unraveling.

“Rosie is a thank-you to my friends. It’s about rolling all of them into one perfect person — Rosie — who doesn’t actually exist. I didn’t want to single anyone out, and none of their names fit into the chorus!”