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katie dey is 30 year old songwriter , producer and woman living in Naarm. Since 2015 she has released 6 solo albums, 2 collaborative albums with Toronto musician Devi McCallion (formerly of Black Dresses), and an EP called "the kraken" (the title track of which featured in Jacob Geller's multi-millionly viewed YouTube video "Fear of Big Things Underwater"). She co-produced Georgia Maq of Camp Cope’s debut solo album ‘Pleaser’ in 2019 (featured as Triple J’s Album of the Week) and is currently in the process of producing jemi gale’s debut album. katie has remixed popular international acts like Perfume Genius, Hand Habits, Tomberlin, Montaigne & David Byrne, and her own songs have been remixed by Danny L Harle, Baths, Lonelyspeck, and Laura Les of 100 gecs. dey's music has been written about glowingly in Pitchfork, Stereogum, NME et al.

"The magic of Katie Dey’s music lies in its corrosion. Very little in the Melbourne psych-pop artist’s oeuvre comes out clean; her voice crackles like she’s singing through broken glass, and her instrumentation juts out into chaotic crystal formations."  
- Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork

"Dey’s vocals carry the same world-weariness of [Kate] Bush’s best performances, and give the same impression of stillness and calm that she often imbued more tumultuous songs with. Her voice is strong and bright, imbuing the cryptic lyrics with emotional weight." 
- Shaad D'Souza, Pitchfork

"Since she first started putting out music back in 2015, Dey has made songs that sound like degraded files, bits and bytes reduced to a computerized soup. The songs are weird, but they’re also approachable. Take away the digitally fucked sonics and they’re downright universal. She basically makes hyper-modern piano ballads, rooted in old songwriting traditions — a girl and a piano, trying to bang out some existential crisis."  
- James Rettig, Stereogum

"When noise crumbles around her full and unafraid vocals, she feels at home in the buzzing networks that deliver us to each other. And when crisp electronic strings emerge from the mess, Dey’s voice instead insists on the honesty of distortion." 
- Austin Walker, Cool Friend