Milk & Bone Info
Hometown: Montréal.
The lineup: Camille Poliquin and Laurence Lafond-Beaulne.
The background: Milk & Bone are a duo from French-speaking Canada, and there is a breathy Gallic lilt to their voices, although they sing in English. They sound almost eerily enchanting, like AlunaGeorge with a dark secret, or a less full-bodied stereo Suzanne Vega. You will either warm to their cool dispassion or go cold. Suffice to say that, for all the easy pleasures of their dreamy, slow-tempo electronic pop/R&B, they offer ample opportunity to violently loathe them. The music on their debut Little Mourning EP is lush and lovely, lo-fi yet luxuriant. It is made, we’re guessing, largely on laptops, and it’s immensely cute. But for some the balance will be all wrong, and they will dismiss it as cutesy.
Milk & Bone is a new project founded by Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin. Both studio and touring musicians, they met when Electronic-Pop band Misteur Valaire invited them to sing a lead duo on their most recent album Bellevue Avenue. Milk&Bone was officially named and born.