Camie gets back to the garden (and paints it red) in her devilishly seductive and tempting new single Genesis 3 — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The third single from the Toronto singer-songwriter’s sophomore album Poems In The Ashes, Genesis 3 takes you on a techno-symphonic trawl through the gritty underbelly of her heart, mind, body, and erotic fantasies — while simultaneously spotlighting her transformative musical prowess and fascinating, singular juxtaposition of frank lyrics with ultra-modern synth-rock.
“I wrote and recorded this album in a two-year period, following multiple pandemic-time lockdowns, when I felt ugly, lost, and disoriented by the new world that I was easing into,” Camie recalls. “I had just moved to a new city at 24 years old and I didn’t know who I was. I was horribly depressed and anxious. I was working through the most formative heartbreak of my early 20s. I was grappling with my queerness and going on a lot of terrible dates.
“I had just released my first critically acclaimed, award-winning record, entitled Troubadour (2021), which was a cinematic, romantic, and dreamy ambient folk record. Releasing that album was strange because I felt like those sonics, and poetics no longer suited my volatile mental and emotional states. I knew that, for my next record, I wanted to do a complete genre shift to account for everything that I was feeling and experiencing. Thus, Poems In The Ashes was born.”
Charting a personal journey from anxiety and self-destruction to catharsis and power, the resulting record is a celebration of the strange, surreal, and serpentine motions of queer womanhood. Blending high fantasy with moments of personal epiphany, transformation, and revelation, each song takes a new, queer, and feminist spin on a different psycho-sexy horror trope. Poems In The Ashes is an album for and about queer women stepping into their desires no matter how taboo, and reclaiming their full identities from outmoded belief systems that warn desire and sexuality are not “for” you.
“I decided to process all of these ugly emotions and experiences in the best way I knew how: by telling stories,” Camie says. “Blending the fantastical and the speculative with my real-world experiences, creating this album felt like a lifeline for me. In writing these songs, I thought a lot about the poetics of excess — hysteria, horror, pleasure, madness, ecstasy, and rapture — and how these things manifest at the limits of human bodies and emotions.
“These are emotions that everyone experiences in various capacities, but they’re things often seen as ‘too much’ (especially when expressed by queer women), taboo, or shameful. This record allowed me to reclaim my body, my emotions, and my physical and spiritual lives. Now, with this release, all that catharsis can be yours.”
Check out Genesis 3 above, hear Poems In The Ashes below, and get Biblical with Camie on her website, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
