“It had been so long since I’d felt that way. I romanticised everything — which I think is necessary to cope with the distance. We’re in different countries, speaking different languages, but we still share this bond.”

“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.”

“Teenage Disillusionment is a pretty sensitive song. I’m in a good place now, and it felt like the right time to speak on my past. I’m passionate about advocating for kids who aren’t safe at home, and I want anyone who relates to the lyrics to know they’re not alone.”

“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!”

“Rabbit Hole was inspired by a pretty chaotic chapter of my life. It’s about losing control, when your mind takes over and everything feels magnified—like falling down a rabbit hole.”

“World’s Worst Girlfriend is me at my peak dramatic gay.It’s about feeling like a terrible partner because instead of going on nice dates, I mostly wanted to stay inside with our cats and play video games.”