Enny One Wil Love You is Pony Girl’s Paper Bag Records debut.

Enny One Wil Love You holds a mirror to our negative cycles for an album that’s as alluring as self-sabotage. Don’t let the title from a childhood painting fool you. Perpetual wartime, teenage temptations, false idols—we’re always crashing the same car in some form or another. So did the band, quite literally, in the lead-up to the album release. Pony Girl have braved much together, and their music is stronger for it.

The Ottawa-Hull band brings a shimmering pop sensibility to rock and electronic production, scoring familiar conflicts with a prismatic sound that’s all their own. Pascal Huot and Yolande Laroche’s duets anchor it all, wonderfully illuminating the inner worlds of imperfect characters. They won the Prix FEQ Emerging Artist Award in 2016 for their “high level of innovation and musicality… exceptional performance quality and on-stage presence.” And it shows.