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One to watch: Annie-Claude Deschênes
The frontwoman of Montreal punk band Duchess Says goes solo with a synth-pop album that started life in the cutlery drawer…
For musician and multidisciplinary artist Annie-Claude Deschênes, a planned break from fronting Montreal post-punk types Duchess Says – to have a baby and study permaculture – became much more protracted thanks to the pandemic. That creativity manifested itself in an unusual way: Deschênes started off by recording the noises her cutlery made (“a spoon spinning in a glass, fork and knife punches on aluminium plates”), and from those clanking beginnings she ended up recording a debut solo album of darkly seductive electro-pop, Les Manières de Table. “With this project the show takes the form of a conventional musical live performance merged with restaurant dining,” she explains.
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