La Sécurité – Bingo!
Pulsating with energy, humour and intimacy, on La Sécurité's latest album Bingo!, the Montreal collective has levelled up
Almost 18 months since releasing double A-side Ketchup / Detour, Montreal/Tiohtià:ke-based collective La Sécurité's follow-up to Stay Safe is worth the wait. Opening sophomore LP Bingo! is a goofy collection of yummy treats to heal your inner child of the munchies. Snack City leaps in with strong bass and guitar chord progressions that swirl around each other, while a beep-boop synth line always brings us back down to earth after singer Éliane Viens' list of delectable snacks is done rolling off the tongue.
Being a primarily Quebecois-speaking band, you can tell the collective excels at tunes in their native language. For example, Princesse kicks off with a thick bassline and some of the weirdest guitar slides that combine with Viens' French inflection to create an incredible sonic landscape. Immediately following, and almost like La Sécurité is instructing a dancefloor, Viens calls out the letter and number combo on the title track, Bingo – bouncing around the senior centre's bingo cards to the beat of the collective's off-kilter and nevertheless dancey polyrhythms.
Bingo! is pulsating with energy, humour and intimacy. Viens' lyricism continues to use poetry to magnify pieces of everyday life with increasingly evident skill.
Listen to: Princesse, Trixie, Nah Nah