Join Excuse My French on Friday, April 4th at 10am when he speaks with Montreal based producer, Marie Davidson, before she plays Great Northern in SF later that same evening.
Marie Davidson’s first four albums cemented her as a transgressive force in dance music, culminating in 2018’s Working Class Woman, a satirical take on club culture and identity. In 2020, she pivoted with Renegade Breakdown, forming a band to explore experimental pop and jazz influences.
Now, four years later, City of Clowns marks her return to the club—blending the techno grit of her past with the melodic sensibilities of Renegade Breakdown. But this time, her target is Big Tech.
Davidson effortlessly weaves through crunching techno straight out of 90s Detroit, fired-up circuit board breakbeats, and skewed club cuts – a body of work which continues the use of her music as a tool to navigate her place in the world, as an artist, as a woman, and as an entertainer. As high concept as it is open-hearted, she pushes the boundaries of electronic music to digest the most urgent questions of our time – and the result is disarmingly human.
City of Clowns was made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau (Essaie pas, L’Œil Nu, Feu St-Antoine) out now, via Soulwax’s own DEEWEE label.
