Filmmaker Kris Lefcoe has always had a secret identity as a musician.

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 first single from debut EP The Naked Tapes, will be released June 10 2024. A hallucinatory stop-motion music video directed by Kris will have its World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival June 8.