Diamond Day

Diamond Day creates a hazy, electro-tinged dreamscape from the foundations of shoegaze, where glitchy organ drums meet the raw energy of jangly, almost-exploding guitars. The Montreal/Victoria duo is the brainchild of Rosier’s Béatrix Méthé, whose rural Quebec upbringing instilled a deep connection to folk traditions, and Vancouver Island’s Quinn Bachand, a versatile Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist. Their debut album, Connect the Dots (2024), is a hypnotic and shoegazey alt-pop journey. Méthé’s captivating vocals and catchy hooks provide a sharp focus, piercing Bachand’s lush, noise-pop soundscapes to create a retro-futuristic euphoria inspired by Julee Cruise, Cocteau Twins, and Curve.

To celebrate their one-year anniversary, Diamond Day released “Dot Dot Dot” in spring 2025, a reworked version of their debut record. They assembled a “dream team” for the project, which included Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, His Name Is Alive (whom Bowie once called one of his “favourite artists”), indie pioneer Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3), Montreal’s KROY (Milk & Bone), and electronic legend John Tejada. This collaboration united four generations of dream pop lineage, reimagining the genre through the lens of its pioneers.

Diamond Day is set to release “Oubliette,” a French-language EP, in the fall of 2025, bending the folk genre into new territory by mixing orchestral samples and guitar synthesizers with Beatrix’s home-grown traditional Quebecois singing style.