Art punk collective La Sécurité announce second album, scheduled for 12 June via Bella Union (World) and Mothland (Canada/United States). The Montréal collective release title track ‘Bingo’ with a music video directed by Philippe Beauséjour.
La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and minimalistic melodic hooks; run through an insomniac filter, the result of excessive exposure to the city’s neon lights. The music is all about living dangerously, perfectly agreeable to being blasted onto dancefloors; while the lyrics share the ethos of the Riot Grrrl movement, and celebrate the autonomization of women, friends (mean and nice) as well as benevolence. Following the release of Polaris Music Prize 2024 long-listed debut Stay Safe! in 2023 with Mothland, the five-piece released singles ‘Detour’ and ‘Ketchup’, setting the stage for a new influx of D.I.Y. sonic gems, this time also teaming up with Simon Raymonde’s seminal British imprint: Bella Union. Hence, the motley bunch continues to meander the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock, mischievously flouting stylistic form every chance they get by way of second album Bingo!.
La Sécurité share title track ‘Bingo’, a clever latter-day nod to early-2000s disco punk, fueled by frantic drums, crunchy bass, intricate auxiliary percussion flurries, as well as a slew of hooks, courtesy of fuzzed-out guitars and new wave-y synthesizers. This stubbornly sticky number (pun intended) by the Montréal/Tiohtià:ke collective is all about embracing inspiration as it comes, its lyrics stemming from the filename of an early voice-memoed version of the song. The band share:
“’Bingo’ was a working title Melissa used to save the demo when we were working on the song. The lyrics came later following a suggestion from Félix to describe a game of Bingo, to put into words the social life from an old folks home—elderly people that are young at heart, hence the references to Orange Crush, little hats, etcetera. The bass line and its tone are a tribute to Death From Above 1979.“
While writing the album, the group, comprising Éliane Viens (vocals, synthesizers, percussion, drums), Félix Bélisle (bass, synthesizers, percussion, piano, production), Kenny Smith (drums, guitar), Laurence Anne Charest-Gagné (guitar, percussion, vocals), and Melissa Di Menna (guitar, synthesizers, vocals, percussion, artworks), indulged in jazz-tinged musical envolées, improvising many of the hooks to be found on the record. Songs were then carefully encapsulated by engineer Renny Wilson (Nap Eyes, Mitch Davis, Faith Healer, etc.), using rare ribbon microphones and vintage compressors with the band playing live off-the-floor before being mixed by co-producers Bélisle and Emmanuel Éthier (Corridor, Population II, Chocolat, etc.) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (Pixies, The Hives, Viagra Boys, etc.). Thus Bingo! aptly harnesses La Sécurité’s natural sound, which fuses calculated musical chaos and uncanny musicality in dealing a powerful and distinct barrage of decibels.
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