Krista Muir: Montreal chanteuse kicks her habit into overdrive

 

One of the more intriguing figures of Montreal’s singer-songwriter circles is Krista Muir. We first crossed paths with our intrepid heroine under the wacky guise of Lederhosen Lucil, a cultish figure who charmed us over the course of a couple of crazed oompah-dancefloor albums.

Eventually leaving behind the Oktoberfest madness, Muir settled into the role she still finds herself in today, that of ukulele ambassador, multidisciplinary artist (design, performance, film) and creator of lush, soft, folk-pop music. Her new album, Between Atoms, takes her into previously uncharted territory musically and otherwise. Krista dons the cape of producer, recording engineer, musician, print-maker and record label executive.

The sounds we hear inside stretch her boundaries into experimental spaced pop-realm-meets-desert-moonscape hymns, with an undercurrent of darkness and doubt, based around the primary twinklings of her electric ukulele and a barrage of vintage organs.

Krista Muir
May 11^th | Divan orange
4234, St. Laurent
with The Imaginary Lads, Jesse Dangerously et Lederhosen Lucil as part of Soiro Bizarro
www.myspace.com/kristallmuir