Anemone is the brainchild of Soldevila, a Montreal native. Raised in the classical music tradition and formally educated in jazz music, Soldevila came to rock music late, at the tail end of highschool, when she discovered krautrock mainstays like Neu! and Can. Traveling as a photographer and filmmaker throughout her early twenties, Soldevila rebelled against her strict musical upbringing, immersing herself into the psychedelic tradition in California, and punk and new wave music in France.

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“I absorb every single thing that I’m exposed to,” says Soldevila. “Music, film, photography, all of it. I’m the kind of person who will buy a plane ticket and leave tomorrow. I always have the urge to get out and live something crazy. I want to hear and see and experience as many things as possible.”

 

When she returned to her native Montreal in her mid-twenties, she began searching the bustling local DIY scene for fellow musical polyglots with which she could form a band. “I was on a

search for exactly what I wanted,” says Soldevila, “for exactly the people I wanted to make music with. It was hard, trying to find like minded people to work with when there’s no money,

only a vision.”

 

Anemone officially began when Soldevila met Zachary Irving at a show. Around the same time, Soldevila and Miles Dupire-Gagnon met at a bar, and he introduced her to Gabriel Lambert. The musical connection was immediate, and the four began working on songs together soon after. Samuel Gemme was a friend and sound engineer who worked on their recordings, spending so much time in the studio with them that he eventually joined the band. The final lineup of Anemone was set.