Meggie Lennon

"Let me take you down, cause I’m going to… Parc de Mount-Royal, where dreams and passion boil. There’s plenty to get sung about and Meggie Lennon is the person to sing it. Her insomnia soundtrack to a Dream Academy is wrapped in gentle, good vibrations that never jiggle too hard, but instead nestle her vocals not astride but abreast of piano and synth tones. There’s a mild psychedelia present, like the out of body, in-the-moment feeling of pedaling your bike down a lane after last call, where streetlight shadows are interrupted by lilacs in bloom at 3 a.m.

Lennon surely absorbed some of her sounds while hosting her Laval radio show for a decade, hanging with musicians and booking shows. Then in 2017 she formed pop rock band Aberdeen before moving on to her solo album in 2021. Sunshine, sex, elation and sorrow are the building blocks of Lennon’s music. While the music rides a surreal, quixotic crest, the naked lyrics are earthier, delving into fleshy pleasures and frangible romance, although the songs bespeak a more complex sensuality than the common pounding tributes to male conquest."