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Tess Roby's Ideas of Space is out later this month on Tess' own label, SSURROUNDSS...

Montreal's Tess Roby shares the self-directed video for the title track from her forthcoming album Ideas of Space...

In advance of her fall European tour with Men I Trust, Montreal's Tess Roby shares the video for the dreamy opening track from her beautiful debut LP Beacon, one of our favorite records of 2018. Directed by Tess Roby & Hugo Bernier. Beacon is out now on Italians Do It Better...

I will leave you with some of my favourite photographs I’ve taken. I’m currently preparing for an upcoming solo exhibition, LIKE WATER, A WINDOW, in Toronto as part of Contact Photography Festival. Runs April 28 - June 17th, more info here! -- Tess Roby

Eliot Roby is my brother, who wrote and recorded all of the guitar arrangements on Beacon. Often people ask me how it is to work with a sibling, and the answer is that it is both wonderful and difficult. It is an amazing thing to watch someone grow through music, and having the same musical history makes it very intuitive to work together...

Martha & The Muffins are a Toronto band who rose to fame in the 1980s, with their hit single ‘Echo Beach’. Their daughter went to the same elementary school as me, and our parents became friends through picking us up in the playground every day...

N10.AS (pronounced ‘antennas’) is Montreal’s online community radio station. I host a monthly programme on the station called ‘Distant Rhythms’ which explores a variety of music from around the world, with a focus on overlooked records from the 80s and 90s...

Everyone has these ones– songs that hold a very important memory, or carry you through an important time in your life. Here are some of mine. -- Tess Roby

While mixing the record, Peter and I came up with a list of mixing references and sonic influences. Enjoy ~ Tess Roby

Beacon was recorded and mixed at The Bottle Garden studio in Montreal during the winter of 2016. The Bottle Garden is a gem of a studio, a shrine to analogue tape and equipment hiding just below the noses of passersby on a busy street in the Mile End...