Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

Vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Emily Haines rose to fame in the early part of the new millennium as frontwoman of the Toronto-based indie dance-rock band Metric and as a vital part of the Broken Social Scene collective. After the release of the first two Metric albums, Haines had built up a backlog of songs she deemed too un-Metric for the band to record. Going under the name Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, she released Knives Don't Have Your Back in September 2006. Her sophomore solo effort, 2017's Choir of the Mind, was a lush, keyboard-driven album that found Haines exploring politics and faith, while never straying too far from a pop hook. ~ Tim Sendra & Kenyon Hopkin