La Sécurité Share Dizzying Single + Video “Ketchup” (Bella Union/Mothland)
Share Snarling Single + Video “Ketchup”
Premiered via POST-TRASH
Southern US Tour Kicking Off This Week
“[‘Ketchup’] It’s the kind of track that’ll shift your hips and spin your head, an irresistibly danceable punk cut reflecting their hometown’s dazzling neon nights.” – POST-TRASH
“[‘Stay Safe!’] … every song is a banger, with infectious
basslines, driving syncopated rhythms, alien vintage keyboards, and spiky guitars.” – BrooklynVegan
“The bilingual post-punk jams the quintet dishes out are insanely catchy […] La Sécurité are certainly a band to watch.” – Consequence
“[‘Anyway’] With synths bleep-blooping, guitars fuzzed in molten silver, and an urge to dance shooting through its veins, it’s a song which circulates round and round, effortlessly drifting
from verse to chorus and chorus to verse with disarming simplicity.” – So Young
“Montreal’s La Sécurité take the best bits of post-punk – and by ‘best bits,’ we mean Talking Heads, Devo, Kleenex and the B-52s – and turn it into something altogether new and exciting for the 21st Century.” – Under the Radar
“Not only straddling languages, La Sécurité have proven themselves to be all about balancing
extremes, oscillating between the light and the dark, deep care and unabashed raucousness, and
tacking their post-prefix onto disco and punk in equal measure — all with
an undeniable synergy.” – Exclaim!
Photo credit: Joel Thomas
Today, Montreal-based art punk collective La Sécurité shared their new singleand video “Ketchup” via Bella Union and home label Mothland. First premiered via POST-TRASH, the track unravels through a tightly-wound post-punk gallop anchored by the most distorted bass line ever recorded, accompanied by dizzyingly catchy keys and spooky guitar licks. The verses are coupled with a supremely ingenious chord change that builds the Montréal collective’s compelling case against small talk. The song is not about condiments; instead it sarcastically alludes to the delicious tomato-based sauce with the line, “L’affaire est ketchup,” a Québécois expression meaning: “All is well.”
Speaking about the single, lead singer Éliane Viens-Synnott says, “Though we knew we wanted to write a song about small talk, when we started working on the music, I was mostly scat singing, save for the words ‘L’affaire est ketchup.’ Hence, the song title. We noticed while playing the song live, that the tune got people bouncing all over the place. The track seems to have that special energy. To keep that energy, Renny [Wilson] went all out with the production. To be fair, we did suggest that he made every track ‘clip.’”
Today’s release comes on the cusp of La Sécurité’s upcoming run of US tour dates, kicking off January 31 in West Palm Beach at Respectable Street.
La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and minimalistic melodic hooks. Their 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.
These five scattered, yet creatively concerted entities also propose a wide arsenal of D.I.Y. music videos, visuals, screenprints, patented dance moves, etcetera! Debut album Stay Safe! (June 16th, 2023 via Mothland) showcases songs that are empowering, flush with urgency, but also denote a dash of melancholia. 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 (also Montreal’s Duchess Says)”. As they gear up for upcoming US dates in the Winter of 2025, La Sécurité offer us a second single via British imprint Bella Union, French scorcher “Ketchup” (January 28th, 2025), also available on the other side of the pond via boutique label Mothland (CA/US).
Tour Dates
Jan 31 West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable Street
Feb 1 Jacksonville, FL @ Winterland Festival w/Omni
Feb 3 Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub
Feb 5 Athens, GA @ Nowhere Bar
Feb 6 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Feb 8 Montreal, QC @ Festival Taverne Tour w/ Chandra
Mar 10-15 Austin, TX @ SXSW 2025
“Ketchup” Single Art | Hi-res here
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