Leonie Pernet

Also a multi-instrumentalist sidewoman, arranger, and film composer, French musician Léonie Pernet puts an artful spin on anxious synth pop as a solo artist. After a decade of working in other roles, she made her full-length solo debut with 2018's Crave. Like prior tracks, it was marked by Pernet's deadpan vocal delivery in a mix of structured song and instrumental passages. Pernet began organizing club nights while studying liturgical music at university, and developed a flair for combining poetry and sociopolitical consciousness in her mixes. In the early 2010s, Pernet tou...