Skye Wallace

With a skill in carving melodies and shreddable moments from rock foundations, Skye Wallace is also an expert at proving herself in every room, at every turn. The guitar-slinging Canadian road warrior has honed a visceral and honest sound, permeating equal parts Courtney Barnett, Patti Smith, and Neil Young’s Marshall Stack era. A live show from Skye and her band is guaranteed to make you let loose and feel something. New album Terribly Good, Wallace’s Six Shooter Records debut, is a candid self-own - tender in purpose, yet tough in process. Throughout the collection, listeners are there in the room with a view of the mirror while Skye stares down the harder takes and owns her mistakes. “This record was the process of coming home to myself, of looking in the eye all the messy, sometimes ugly pieces of being alive and the beauty of growing and moving through it,” says Wallace. The album is bookended by songs that ride the turbulence of Wallace’s inner voyage through spiralling galaxies. Opener “Tooth & Nail” sets a grungy, determined tone, in which Wallace grits her teeth and turns frustrations into superpowers. That grinding, tenacious spirit... more...