TORONTO – Stingray Rising Star, SOCAN, and Trille Or Award-winners, Moonfruits (partners Kaitlin Milroy and Alex Millaire) are bilingual makers of contemporary folk music and have a new single “Atoms of the Apartment,” the first from their upcoming album Salt. The single drops on April 29th and will be available on all major platforms. The duo headlines at the Ottawa Grass Roots Festival on Friday, April 22nd at 7:30 pm. For more information please visit any of the links below and at Moonfruits’ website. OttawaGrassRootsFestival | Tickets
Moving from a grungy ’90s electric guitar to a vibrant crescendo of strings, horns, and synths, “Atoms of the Apartment” follows the unifying thread of the unique, charming vocal interplay between Milroy and Millaire – with a lesson in quantum physics as well.
On tour with a sleepy bandmate – Kaitlin – and a perpetually broken car radio, Alex’s mind wandered to a coffee table book borrowed from his grandparents-in-law, a never-before-opened tome from the ’70s called The Drama of the Universe. Billions of years of universal history dorkily divided into the acts of an opera.
“A song idea began percolating then and there, and the nerdy, upbeat love song to their apartment took root,” says Millaire. “Atoms of the Apartment” is a driving, chamber-orchestra-backed tune from Ottawa’s astral folk duo, Moonfruits – a kaleidoscopic ode to the quirks (and quarks) of home.
Living and working on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, Ottawa-based Moonfruits – partners Kaitlin Milroy and Alex Millaire – are bilingual makers of contemporary folk music.
A compelling and creative voice in contemporary Canadian folk music, Moonfruits has toured across Canada, the US and Europe, weaving together song and storytelling with intimacy and theatrical flair. They transport audiences with a tender and powerful live show that elevates the stuff of everyday life.
Salt, Moonfruits’ anticipated sophomore album (Fall 2022), is a lushly orchestrated, deeply personal 12-song suite that explores what it means to live, dream and raise a family in an era of climate change and deepening socio-economic inequality — it tells the stories of their families and the kinds of communities they hope to help build.
The foundation of Moonfruits’ sound is their voices—Alex Millaire’s gritty baritone, and Kaitlin Milroy’s choral-trained mezzo. Accompanied by guitar and banjo, and bolstered by a roving cast of double-bass, drums, strings, glockenspiel, kalimba, organ and samples, the band has developed a reputation for disarming even the most skeptical of choristers.