Baths
Layering dreamy electronic soundscapes with unconventional sounds (think clicking pens and scissor snaps) is par for the course for Will Wiesenfeld, AKA Baths. He’s earned raves from the AV Club and ventured into more ambient territory with a side project, Geotic. Gut, Baths’ first proper album since 2017, dropped in February, led off by the Pixies-meets-bedroom-pop single “Sea of Men.”
Sofie Royer
Driven by a multidisciplinary “total art” approach, Sofie Royer explores consumer culture with deliciously catchy synth-pop. On Young-Girl Forever, she bounces from despair to bliss via dreamy production that celebrates and deconstructs the album’s titular ideal. She’s worked with Boiler Room, opened for the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Lana Del Rey, and now makes her way to Sled Island for her debut Calgary performance.
About Sled Island:
Sled Island is an annual five-day independent music and arts festival in Calgary, Alberta that brings together a community of music, comedy and art with nearly 30,000 attendees in multiple venues across the city. For more information, visit SledIsland.com.
Upon entering a festival venue, the passholder agrees to being photographed, filmed or recorded in that venue, and agrees to the publication, reproduction, distribution and broadcast of all photographs, video or other recordings of the passholder's voice or likeness without further notice or compensation in any publicity, advertisement or other publication carried-out by, or on behalf of, Sled Island and in perpetuity in any manner and media whatsoever, including print, broadcast or internet.
Everyone has the right to feel safe and included at Sled Island. All festival attendees must abide by Sled Island's safer spaces and inclusion policy and agree to the code of conduct, which can be found at SledIsland.com/SaferSpaces.
Sled Island acknowledges Calgary as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda First Nations, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Goodstoney First Nations. Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
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