La Sécurité, Stay Safe!: REVIEW

La Sécurité, Stay Safe! (Mothland)

Leave it to Montreal to generate one of the most captivating new wavey post-punk groups to debut in North America in the past decade. La Sécurité is a supergroup made up of members from the city’s experimental, new wave and punk scene and we now finally have their absolutely electric, bilingual debut Stay Safe! Singer Éliane Viens-Synnott usually leads the charge with her deadpan, sometimes very literal lyrics, all about being alive on a weird spinning rock and having to dodge the assholes of today. This record is pure fire, angsty lightning in a bottle with all the punk attitude that recalls the early days of Devo (“Dis-moi”), le Tigre (“Serpent”) and the GoGo’s (“Waiting for Kenny”). Comparison’s aside, this record is full of shifting and funky bass riffs, freaky synths, frenetic shoegaze guitars and a steady motorik backbeat that, paired all together, makes you want to flip your chair and dance. Except maybe for the beautiful, Mazzy Star-esque (one more comparison) slow burn “K9” — that one makes you want to hug someone. Having been a music critic for the past 10 years, I can say Stay Safe! might be one of the strongest debut albums to appear out of thin air. Let’s just hope the world listens. Trial Track: “Serpent” 10/10

For more on la Securité, please visit their Bandcamp page.

This review was originally published in the June issue of Cult MTL.

---

For our latest in music, please visit the Music section.