New Bella Union signings La Sécurité are an electrifying Montreal collective whose art-punk is equal parts jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and addictive melodic hooks, run through an insomniac filter. 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, as well as benevolence. The eclectic bunch meanders the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock, mischievously flouting stylistic form every chance they get.

La Sécurité’s debut album Stay Safe!, released via Mothland in June 2023, is manic yet surprisingly laid-back, painting unique sonic graffitis evoking a polymorphic reality. Bill Pearis from BrooklynVegan describes the long-player as “an enticing batch of party-friendly jams shouted in sneering Franglais that recall everything from Le Tigre to Neu! to Kleenex/Liliput”. For their first full-length, the collective turned to producer Samuel Gemme at Gamma Recording Studio (Corridor, Population II), printing songs that are empowering, flush with urgency, but also denote a dash of melancholia. Earlier this year the flamboyant bunch offered Stay Safe! REMIXED, a collection including remixes from Born at Midnite, The Mauskovic Dance Band and Freak Heat Waves, giving listeners a yet another fix of that “addictively angular pop” (The Line of Best Fit).

You can find La Sécurité sporting thrift-shopped goodies in dark underground venues, on the rooftop of a tanning salon, or on VHS tape performing tunes for Audiotree Live, indulging in a symbiotic hurrah of disheveled music, cloaked poetry and improv dancing, with movement as a main creative fuel. Since coming together in the Spring of 2022, the five-piece has been invited to perform noteworthy events such as The Great Escape, Reeperbahn Festival, SXSW and Focus Wales. “The bilingual post-punk jams the quintet dishes out are insanely catchy, with vocalist Éliane Viens-Synnott’s carefree dance moves and multiple trips into the crowd making for a captivating frontperson.” (Consequence)