About the artist

Who They Are: A Toronto-based foursome who bend pop tropes as if they’re made of Silly Putty, Weaves’ idiosyncratic songs play with genre and form while vocalist Jasmyn Burke’s precisely calibrated alto (which takes cues from Siouxsie as much as Aaliyah) leads the way.

What They’ve Done: Burke and co-songwriter Morgan Waters have been coming up with Weaves’ twisted tunes for about a year. The process starts on Burke’s phone: “I record stuff on my Voice Memos on my iPhone — I have like 3,000 files,” she says. The pair then convene in Waters’ bedroom studio to “pump them full of insanity,” as he puts it, before adding in the contributions of bassist Zach Bines and drummer Spencer Cole. Songs like the writhing “Take a Dip” and the gorgeous grind “Hulahoop” appeared on the band’s outpost at the digital-music store Bandcamp; Weaves, the band’s first EP, came out last month on Buzz.

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