New Single
"Stay The Same"

AloneKitty is the project of Toronto-based artist Michelle K — an intensely personal
distillation of noise, heartbreak, and resilience. Drawing from the heavy textures of
shoegaze and the emotional urgency of post-punk, AloneKitty is a deep dive into the kind
of sound that sandblasts away thought and replaces it with something raw, blurred, and
beautiful.

Michelle cites artists like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, HUM, Mogwai, and
The House of Love as formative influences — not just in tone but in ethos. “I’m not trying
to be nostalgic,” she says. “I’m trying to make something that hits as hard as those bands
made me feel when I needed them most.” That connection to noise as a kind of emotional
armor — and emotional release — runs through everything AloneKitty does.
The project began in the wake of personal upheaval: job loss, a period of intense
emotional transition, and the desire to reconnect with music as a form of meaning-making.
The debut AloneKitty album — recorded alone in a modest home setup — was intensely
personal, emotionally heavy, and sonically overwhelming. Despite no professional PR
push, it briefly landed at #164 on the NACC charts in January 2025.
The follow-up, due in fall 2025 on US indie label Mint400 Records, is a full-band effort
featuring drummer Stefan Loebus and bassist Jon Knowles. Produced with local Josh
Korody, mixed by Luke Schindler (Broken Social Scene, Alexisonfire) and mastered by
Simon Scott of Slowdive, the album expands AloneKitty’s sound into even more immersive
territory while staying rooted in the themes of identity, alienation, and catharsis.
Simon Scott, having been struck by the record’s emotional depth and sonic detail, even
offered to contribute a press note for the album — a rare and meaningful endorsement.
“That meant the world to me,” Michelle says. “Not because of status, but because he really
listened. That’s what we all want, isn’t it?”
The result is a record that’s both deeply personal and defiantly loud — one that refuses to
polish away the rough edges or compromise the intensity of its vision. In a culture
obsessed with algorithmic neatness, AloneKitty makes space for distortion, doubt, and
deeply human noise.

 

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