Lovely Trees is the musical project of Toronto singer-songwriter and producer Sally McKay, blending atmospheric electronics with intimate songwriting, downtempo rhythms, and cinematic textures.

McKay is currently working on Devotion Scenes, the second Lovely Trees album, arriving fall 2026. The project explores the complexities of relationships — devotion, longing, emotional distance, and the strange ways people continue to shape one another through love and change.

The first single, Knees, released May 29, introduces a more immediate and vivid sonic direction for Lovely Trees while retaining the emotional intimacy that defines the project.

Before Lovely Trees, McKay recorded and performed in Toronto under the names Phauna and Lovage. The debut Lovely Trees album, Songs for the Visitor, emerged in the years following the loss of her husband and longtime musical partner Mike Young in 2018. Written and largely self-produced during lockdown from her Toronto home studio, the album explored grief, memory, and transformation through immersive electronic and acoustic arrangements.

With Devotion Scenes, Lovely Trees moves into a new chapter — expansive, emotionally direct, and rooted in the tension between vulnerability and momentum.