In 1990, a 21-year old Merrill Nisker was part of a folk trio, Mermaid Cafe. Things must seemed to have been going according to plan for the young Toronto native. Flash forward a decade later, and Merrill Nisker has changed her performing name to Peaches, moved to Berlin, and had started to become one of the hardest rocking electronic musician/performance artist/DJs in the world. It can be hard to reconcile the transformation on the surface.
I first heard Peaches while watching the movie, Lost in Translation. Her song, Fuck the Pain Away, from the Bill Murray' Japanese strip joint scene is memorable. Peaches would go on to continue to write and record powerful tunes throughout the 2000's, often with explicitly sexual themes smashing through gender norms.
Here is a track from Peaches' 2009 album, I Feel Cream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWqIOAbxq2g
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