Ariel Engle

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Ariel Engle
Genres indie pop
indie rock
Years active2000s-present
Labels Arts & Crafts Productions

Ariel Engle is a Canadian indie pop singer and songwriter who records and performs as a solo artist and with Broken Social Scene. [1]

Engle first became noted as a guest vocalist on Montag's 2005 album Alone, Not Alone, performing vocals on the track "Grand Luxe". [2] She subsequently appeared as a guest or backing vocalist on recordings by Melissa Auf der Maur, Snowblink, Land of Kush, Plants and Animals, Stars and Martha Wainwright before collaborating with her husband, Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman, on the band project AroarA. [3] The band's 2013 EP In the Pines, based on the poetry of Alice Notley, was a longlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. [4]

Following In the Pines, Engle became a member of Broken Social Scene, often serving as a live fill-in vocalist on songs that had been sung on record by Feist, Amy Millan or Emily Haines. [1] The 2017 album Hug of Thunder marked her first recorded appearance on a Broken Social Scene album. [5]

In 2018, Engle launched the solo project La Force. [6] Her self-titled debut album as La Force was released in September 2018 on Arts & Crafts Productions. [7] In the same year, she appeared on Safia Nolin's album Dans le noir as a duet vocalist on the track "Lesbian Break-Up Song". [8] La Force was a longlisted nominee for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize. [9]

She subsequently joined Efrim Menuck in the noise-pop project All Hands Make Light. [10]

XO Skeleton was a longlisted nominee for the 2024 Polaris Music Prize. [11]

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  1. 1 2 Ben Rayner, "Broken Social Scene put it back together for Hug of Thunder". Toronto Star , July 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Montag: A Laptop Faithful No More". Ottawa Citizen , April 14, 2005.
  3. ↑ "Poet gave AroarA a haunting vision; Montreal duo sets Alice Notley's words to dreamy music". Montreal Gazette , March 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Polaris Music Prize announces 2014 long list" Archived 3 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine . Aux , 19 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Broken Social Scene's latest offers up one rousing song after another". Waterloo Region Record , July 7, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Ariel Engle steps out solo as La Force". Now , September 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Ariel Engle is La Force to be reckoned with". The Globe and Mail , September 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Safia Nolin talks breakups, style police and fear of the CAQ victory". Montreal Gazette , October 4, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Find out who made the 2019 Polaris Music Prize long list". CBC Music, June 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ Erik Leijon, "Two stars of the Montreal music scene unite for ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT". Cult MTL , September 23, 2021.
  11. ↑ "2024 Polaris Music Prize long list: the Beaches, Tobi, Elisapie, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and more". CBC Music, June 11, 2024.
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