Biography

Sasha Cay lives in Montreal, the same city in which she grew up. In the back of her apartment, there’s a small room with a washing machine and enough space for one chair and her roommate’s rickety easel. Her songs often start in that room, the sounds of zippers and buttons scratching the dryer door bleeding into demos. Sasha cut her teeth on Montreal’s bars and DIY venues, playing & hosting open mics and performing with local punk and psych rock bands, doubling as a filmmaker & making music videos for local bands. In 2017, she emerged with a collection of bedroom recordings — lo-fi indie songs inspired by the idiosyncratic tunings of Nick Drake & the spontaneity of the Velvet Underground. These short Bandcamp releases as well as her EP Arthur’s Party Trick paved the way towards her forthcoming debut LP Spin, as she and her drummer Rhys began making music together by recording a Nirvana song for kicks to test out the DIY studio Rhys had just set up in their apartment basement. Spin took form in two stilted and warped years, heavy with this profound seasickness of being both empty and full. Among other things, it is a record about outliving - but Spin is less the simple recounting of darkness than the unfolding and refolding of it - examining what may lie on the periphery of these experiences, stretching out across stark realism and literary narrative, tucking humor into odd corners. Her debut full-length will arrive on September 22, 2023.