Hollie Kenniff

Canadian-American musician and vocalist Hollie Kenniff makes shoegaze-tinged electronic indie pop as half of the duo Mint Julep, and wistful, ethereal ambient music on her own. She formed Mint Julep with her husband, Keith Kenniff (Helios, Goldmund) in 2007, and following an atmospheric 2008 debut, their subsequent albums embraced danceable rhythms and pop hooks. Hollie made her solo debut with the glimmering, glacial full-length The Gathering Dawn in 2019 and incorporated more hazy guitars and neo-classical elements on her next two albums, The Quiet Drift (2021) and We All Have Places That We Miss (2023).
Hollie and Keith Kenniff formed Mint Julep in Boston in 2007 and released Songs About Snow as a limited CD-R in 2008. Their first widely available album, Save Your Season, was issued by Village Green in 2011, shifting the band’s music to synth pop and alternative dance. Inspired by the birth of their son, the duo also released an album of children’s music, The Littlest Star, under the name Meadows. Mint Julep’s third album, the driving synth pop effort Broken Devotion, appeared in 2016 through Keith’s Unseen Music. Hollie’s first solo album, The Gathering Dawn, was released by n5MD in 2019, fusing drifting synths with gossamer vocals. Mint Julep released two of their hookiest, most accessible albums, Stray Fantasies (2020) and In a Deep & Dreamless Sleep (2021), on Western Vinyl. Hollie signed to the label as a solo artist and released The Quiet Drift in 2021, with Goldmund featured on two tracks. Hollie released further tracks with her husband (as either Goldmund or Helios), as well as the 2022 track “Ways of Seeing” with violinist Anna Phoebe. Hollie continued to blend ambient, post-rock, and modern classical on her third solo album, We All Have Places That We Miss, which was released in 2023. ~ Paul Simpson