After releasing her debut album “Beacon” earlier this year via Italians Do It Better, Montreal musician Tess Roby is sharing a new video for standout track “Given Signs”, which was filmed in and around Los Angeles and directed by Tess Roby herself & Hugo Bernier.

Tess Roby is an artist with a vision. The Montreal-based photographer and musician, an eight-year veteran of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, seems utterly original, moving with a restless energy toward the sublime. Her sound betrays an intrepid longing to discover and explore, to reject convention and transcend cliché: Roby is a born traveler, absorbing everything she hears and making it new. Ethereal and crystalline, bathed sumptuously in synths, her music is heady, dreamy, singular — a transmission from parts unknown. The classical training and aesthetic omnivorousness combine like worlds colliding.

“All the while the Beacon remained effervescent in my mind. Visions of it ablaze on the hilltop, standing motionless while I searched for understanding.”  

Roby’s debut album Beacon was written in 2015, following the death of her father. She collaborated with her brother Eliot to create what they describe as a kind of spiritual homage — both to her father and to the Beacon, where the family traveled often. Roby recorded these songs with the drum machines and synthesizers she found in her father’s recording studio, and galvanized by his spirit she imbued the music with love, movement, whispers, memories, and pain.

Watch the video below: