Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Canada Maylee Todd released her newest studio album Acts of Love.
Maylee Todd is best known for music that incorporates elements of disco, funk, soul, electronic, and experimental sounds. Her previous two albums Choose Your Own Adventure (2010) and Escapology (2013) brought her on tour across North America, Europe and Asia, charting worldwide, and establishing her as a breakout Canadian indie artist.
Her third studio album Acts of Love sees Maylee wholly embracing technology and taking on the role of producer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist, recording and playing the bulk of the music in her home studio. From a sonic standpoint, the new album marks a departure from the harder-edged sounds of her previous work, boasting a more stripped down, synth-based production approach, with hypnotic beats and undeniably poppy hooks. The 17 track album covers a wide range of timely, topical and universal subject matter, including gender bias (“From This Moment”), addiction (“One of These Days”), solitude (“Lonely”), forgiveness (“Eye To Eye”), polyamory (“Goat Wut U Need”) and virtual reality (“Virtual Life”).
“This record is a bedroom record. I spent the winter writing and learning software, so creating can be limitless,” explains the self-professed augmented reality nerd. While working on the album, Maylee also composed music for CBC television (“Workin’ Moms”) and produced her Virtual Womb multimedia show, which has appeared in Fringe Festivals internationally to rave reviews.
Acts Of Love is essentially a tale of Maylee’s metamorphosis, of constantly mutating and evolving musically, with the ultimate goal being to enlighten listeners on the symbiotic relationship between music, technology, performance art and human nature.
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