Shortlisted for The Polaris Prize, 2022 Winner of ECMA 'Best Rock Recording'

"If post-Toronto was a genre, Kelly McMichael would be its poster child, champion, and priestess. Her debut solo album, Waves, is half confessional, half musing, as this musical chameleon ushers us about, through the eddies of her life in the wake of fronting past musical projects like RENDERS, Rouge and Thelma & Louise. This is the evolved form of a musician who has been shaped by experience and learned when to break the rules and when to make them her own. As one of the most exciting albums we’ve heard this year, it’s all the more intriguing to know that there’s still some gold left in those hills. When an album like Kelly McMichael’s Waves is this good you can’t help be go looking for easter eggs." Alex Cook, The East Magazine