press
"Kris Lefcoe’s Booked A Room: A masterpiece of emotion in motion”— PRINT Magazine
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“Kris Lefcoe covers The Stooges”— If It’s Too Loud
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“Booked A Room: the eerie, excellent new single and gloriously-inventive video by filmmaker and musician Kris Lefcoe” — The Autumn Roses
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“Best New Rock” Kris Lefcoe — The Wild is Calling
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“Kris Lefcoe transforms the Stooges track into a psychedelic ambient odyssey” — Last Day Deaf
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“Award-Winning Filmmaker Kris Lefcoe Shares Tribeca Premiered Solo Debut Booked A Room” — Mundane Magazine​
MUSIC BIO
Filmmaker Kris Lefcoe has always had a secret identity as a musician.
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A classically-trained pianist, Kris started performing in a hoodie with her back to the audience under the moniker MC Tourettes in the early aughts. For the release of the electroclash compilation Bad Grrrlz (Gay Records) - featuring songs by Peaches and Carole Pope - Kris performed at a strip bar in a burqa. Her speed-rap single Little Liquid topped the CIUT Toronto college radio chart. She formed a band with members of Blue Rodeo, Rusty, and Groovy Religion, performing under different names at Toronto venues The Drake, Rivoli, and the El Mocombo.
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After moving to NYC, Kris started playing solo shows using nothing but an old DX-100 keyboard she found in the garbage. These “garbage keys” became the foundation of her unique sound – sparse, haunting space-pop. In a raw, lilting voice over a swollen bed of harmonic decay, Kris spills secrets about bad cops, weird drugs and the nature of time and space.
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Booked A Room, the advance single from debut LP The Naked Tapes, was released June 10 2024. A hallucinatory stop-motion music video directed by Kris had its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. A limited edition 45 pressed by Third Man with a cover of the Stooges’ “Dirt” as the B-Side was available exclusively at the festival and is now awaiting a second pressing. Full album out in Fall 2025.
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