Premiere: Olivia Cayce - Breaking Teeth

Classically trained violinist Olivia Cayce started playing music outside of her education about ten years ago when she and best friend Taylor Jade started the Saskatoon based dark folk project Little Criminals. Her violin skills would later lead to touring with a Saskatoon doom-metal band called Black Tremor and also collaborating with another doom band in New Brunswick’s beloved ZAUM. She now resides in Richibucto, New Brunswick and teaches violin and viola to at-risk youth when not crafting her own music.

Today we are very excited to announce Cayce’s next project is a solo effort that is set for release on December 17th. It comes in the form of a five song EP called Du Loup which tells the story of her rescue dog attacking her rescue cat after a barrier separating the two had fallen down. The songs are written from the perspectives of the cat (Lu’s Song I & II), Cayce in the days following the event (Breaking Teeth), the dog (Royal Beast), and Cayce in the days following the months-later surrender of the cat to live out her three-legged days in the care of a dear friend (Fire & Gold). The music was created from ten years of classic violin training and a deep curiosity for other stringed instruments with the help of a loop station and delay and distortion pedals.

Cups N Cakes is premiering the video for “Breaking Teeth,” a song which acts as an apology from Cayce to both of her animals; for not having met the rehabilitation needs of one and failing to protect the other. The video was shot at various abandoned barns near Lac Vert, Saskatchewan by Émilie Lebel (Éemi), owner and founder of Trash Cat Productions, with behind-the-scenes photography by Andrew Brommel.