La Sécurité sign to Bella Union and release new single and video "Detour" || US tour dates with The Go! Team next week

Bella Union are thrilled to announce the signing of Montreal’s La Sécurité, an electrifying collective whose art-punk is equal parts jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and addictive 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, as well as benevolence. The eclectic bunch meanders the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock, mischievously flouting stylistic form every chance they get.

As they gear up for their forthcoming US tour supporting The Go! Team, La Sécurité tease us with their first single for Bella Union, the dancy-topsy-curvy “Detour”, which will be released in the US and Canada via boutique label Mothland. A modern dance-floor scorcher with tripwire-like arrangements and driving rhythms, “Detour” pokes fun at pop psychology while advocating free-will and avoiding the straightforward route. The track comes accompanied by a high-spirited video directed by Dirt & Daydream. Click HERE to watch.

(photo credit: Joel Thomas)

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)

“On Stay Safe!, La Sécurité spike the punch of their pitch-faded disco bass lines and warped synths with sawtoothed post-punk delivery, tackling topics as serious as bodily autonomy (and as lighthearted as being chronically late), ultimately urging fellow outsiders to take care of themselves — and each other.” - Exclaim!

“Arty, danceable new-wave post punk from the heart of the fertile Montreal underground. Stay Safe! is equal parts hooks and attitude with an enticing batch of party-friendly jams shouted in sneering Franglais that recall everything from Le Tigre to Neu! to Kleenex/Liliput. It’s been done before but never quite like this and rarely with so much snazzy zeal.” – BrooklynVegan

“Drawing on punk, New Wave, krautrock, Riot Grrrl, and a certain je ne sais quoi, the bilingual outfit spits haywire odes to living dangerously over minimalist, off-kilter arrangements, amounting to a listen that’s as tight as it is exhilarating.” – KCRW 

“The collective is a true representation of the Montreal scene, the disparate artists coming together to create a bilingual, danceable form of post-punk.” – Consequence

La Sécurité live dates:

October 28 - Chicago - Lincoln Hall w/ The Go! Team

October 30 - Cambridge - The Sinclair w/ The Go! Team

November 1 - Manhattan - Irving Plaza w/ The Go! Team

November 2 - Philadelphia - The Foundry w/ The Go! Team

November 3 - Washington - Black Cat w/ The Go! Team

November 14 - Montreal - Club Soda

“Detour” single artwork: