While the French have a handle on dance music, and the Swedes know how to turn heads in pop, and the Australians have the key to electronica, it’s without a doubt that dream-pop’s homeland is Canada. That’s where you’ll find MUNYA – in Montreal to be exact. Musician behind the name Josie Boivin releases her first bilingual song, joining the likes of Empress Of with her English-Spanish serenades ‘Trust Me Baby’ and ‘When I’m With Him’ and Fil Bo Riva’s dramatic English-Italian ballad ‘L’impossibile’. Through ‘Benjamin’, each placid lyric is stretched out in dreamy effervescence taking on those well-known tropes of love and heartbreak. Speaking about the inspiration behind the track, MUNYA shares: “Many times in my life when I thought I had found love it turned into heartbreak. Like most people, it has made it harder for me to be vulnerable with new experiences and people. In this song I take a step back and realise it’s how we all feel. I make fun of my own vulnerabilities, try to just push them to the side and enjoy my new love.” This is the kind of careless, driving song we all need to act as an antithesis to broken hearts and forgotten promises, as Boivin sings over the alien synths and Franco-pop melodies, “I don’t care the reason.” - Hannah Thacker   Photo credit; Josh Aldecoa