Following up on their acclaimed 2023 debut Stay Safe!, with their second full-length LP La Sécurité have crafted yet another genuine and inspired collection of beautiful curiosities, further implementing polyrhythms, counter-intuitive chord changes, as well as subtle melodic and harmonic dissonance. The resulting forays into subversive pop are catchy and rhythmic, while also challenging the listener via eclectic, often edgy arrangements. The album sees the Montréal/Tiohtià:ke collective introduce even more elements from no wave, noise rock, and shoegaze to their signature alloy of bilingual art-punk, creating something jittery, confrontational, and irresistibly kinetic.

Whether tackling knotty themes such as mental health (“Power Snoozer”), the autonomization of women (“Princesse”), or dysfunctional relationships (“Deny”) with moxie, humorously musing about food (“Snack City”), addressing everyday mundanity with a sarcastic tone (“Ketchup”), or simply celebrating unsung heroes such as the elderly (“Bingo”); songs from Bingo! are all at once snarky and heartfelt, delinquent and benevolent. La Sécurité also shed the stigma around sex workers with “Trixie”, while asking to be left alone on franco egg punk earworm “Nah Nah”, and debunking myths around new relationship energy (N.R.E.) on deep cut “Chill Pill”. As was the case on previous recordings, many tracks saw the group improvise lyrics in the studio, effectively catching lightning in a bottle.

While writing the album, the group—Éliane Viens (vocals, synthesizers, percussion, drums), Félix Bélisle (bass, synthesizers, percussion, piano, production), Kenny Smith (drums, guitar), Laurence Anne Charest-Gagné (guitar, percussion, vocals), and Melissa Di Menna (guitar, synthesizers, vocals, percussion, artworks)—indulged in jazz-tinged musical envolées, improvising many of the hooks to be found on the record. Songs were then carefully encapsulated by engineer Renny Wilson (Nap Eyes, Mitch Davis, Faith Healer, etc.), using rare ribbon microphones and vintage compressors—with the band playing live off-the-floor—before being mixed by co-producers Félix Bélisle and Emmanuel Éthier (Corridor, Population II, Chocolat, etc.) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (Pixies, The Hives, Viagra Boys, etc.). In turn, Bingo! aptly harnesses La Sécurité’s natural sound, which fuses calculated musical chaos and uncanny musicality in dealing a powerful and distinct barrage of decibels.

La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and minimalistic 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 (mean and nice), as well as benevolence. Since coming together in the Spring of 2022, they have been invited to perform noteworthy events such as SXSW, End of the Road, The Great Escape, and Reeperbahn, also touring alongside The Go! Team (2024) and The Rapture (2025). Following the release of the Polaris Music Prize 2024 long-listed debut Stay Safe! —as well as its joyous offspring Stay Safe! REMIXED—with Mothland, the five-piece offered singles “Detour” and “Ketchup”, setting the stage for a new influx of D.I.Y. sonic gems, this time also teaming up with Simon Raymonde’s seminal British imprint Bella Union. Hence, the motley bunch continues to meander the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock, mischievously flouting stylistic form every chance they get, as evidenced on the band’s sophomore long-player Bingo!