Mozart's Sister

Montreal-based musician/performer Caila Thompson-Hannant came from the same fertile creative scene that gave birth to similarly minded artists such as <a href="spotify:artist:053q0ukIDRgzwTr4vNSwab">Grimes</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4BEYBN6NCPrFk3sOLMTby3">Majical Cloudz</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6XC2sEBXW5xqpPSbYgMnvc">Sean Nicholas Savage</a>. Thompson-Hannant took part in various bands, playing with acts like <a href="spotify:artist:5IBqn0XSlmonqBm9Vf5T2x">Miracle Fortress</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:471rEFKcAc9cD0frRWfbgr">Shapes and Sizes</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:4qHANLR0LHV0X7xvZjhfjd">Think About Life</a> before going solo in 2011 under the Mozart's Sister moniker. Toiling over a few spare songs for many months resulted in her debut EP, 2013's Hello. The songs were fragmented synth pop with enormous electro beats and Thompson-Hannant's smooth vocals, borrowing at once from both '80s radio hits and her more experimentally minded contemporaries. The EP drew significant buzz, and Mozart's Sister signed with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Asthmatic+Kitty%22">Asthmatic Kitty</a> for the release of her 2014 debut full-length, Being. She moved to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Arbutus+Records%22">Arbutus Records</a> for the follow-up, Field of Love. Released in 2017, it doubled down on off-kilter electropop. ~ Fred Thomas, Rovi