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Montreal's Lindsay Robins first made an impact on young music fans across the nation with the single/video, "What Would You Do", when she was selected to perform the theme song for MuchMusics highly successful VJ Search reality series. Now the 19-year-old singer-songwriter is releasing a whole set of raw rock songs entitled Dirty Chemistry, on Aquarius Records.

The video for the first single, "Freaks", directed by Sean Michael Turrell (Sum 41, Billy Talent, Hedley), will surely connect with even more people. With her outrageous performance and lyrics like were all weird in our own way, the song is Lindsay's testament to individuality.

"I'm always trying to figure out who I am and I share that on this album", says Lindsay. "Some tracks are darker and angrier, and my music is a way to express that side of my personality. I also love to shock people and make them laugh."

Determined to spend her life making music, at 13, Lindsay began recording pop demos. Soon, she discovered her own aggressive vocal style and started writing more personal angst-driven songs.

Empowered by this transformation, she cut a demo, which eventually led her to songwriters Christopher Ward (Alannah Myles, Hilary Duff, Amanda Marshall) and Fred St-Gelais (Randy Bachman, Marie Mai, Ryan Malcolm, and Andre Watters). From these collaborations came her full-length debut, Dirty Chemistry, produced by St-Gelais and Ward.

Inspired by such tell-it-like-it-is females as Pat Benatar, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith and Alanis Morissette, Lindsay's music now has the edge she was looking for in her early years.

"Dirty Chemistry was fun for me. It was also an incredible learning experience as a singer and a writer," says Robins. "I really feel like I was given the chance to say exactly what I wanted and put myself into every track on this record."

With the release of "Freaks", her tongue-in-cheek anthem for individuality, Lindsay has certainly found her voice and Dirty Chemistry is a raw and real expression of her defiance and, ultimately a statement of personal evolution.

For the most up-to-date information on Lindsay Robins, visit her official site here or her MySpace here.