Meet Beatrice Deer, a songwriter who creates silvery, gossamer indie pop songs in three languages, English, French and Inuktitut (an Inuit language of northern Canada).
Deer, a mother, television director, clothing-maker, mental health advocate and songwriter, is originally from one of Quebec’s most northernmost towns, a population in the mere hundreds. Now based in Montreal, Deer readies for the release of her fourth full-length album My All To You, coming May 11, 2018 in Canada and the US. Her voice, delicate yet determined, tells stories of resilience both personal and communal. As a whole, the songs of My All To You focus on finding the big answers in the small glances, scents and gestures that linger and build. Companionship is a major theme, and Deer’s invocation of the legend of “Atungak,” a man who doesn’t age and travels the world with his wife only to return and find his children have grown old, is a striking parable of togetherness in loneliness.