Marie Davidson

Marie Davidson has always gone against the grain. The French-Canadian producer’s 2014 debut Perte d’identité laid the foundations of organic electronics and introspective storytelling that grew across a run of fearless releases, culminating in the Polaris Prize–nominated Working Class Woman (2018), a scathing and satirical lens on club culture and fractured identity. In 2020, she broke the mould with Renegade Breakdown, a collaborative experiment with Pierre Guerineau and Asaël Robitaille that pulled from jazz, chanson, and electronica, marking the first time Davidson put her voice at the forefront. Four years later, her sixth studio album City of Clowns finds her returning to the dancefloor with a “strange” sonic blend that merges the techno thump and spoken word of her earlier work with the melodic sensibilities of her band project. Shaped by her reading of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and her obsession with stand-up comedians as modern-day truth-tellers, Davidson confronts Big Tech, domination, and identity with biting humour, raw power, and a contrarian spirit. For her, staying creative means never standing still.