by Dan Goldin (@paintingwithdan)
Perhaps you’ve never associated a riveting game of bingo with the joyous debauchery of an all nighter out dancing, but all that is about to change. Nearly three years after their full length debut, Montreal art-punk quintet La Sécurité are back at it and they’ve never sounded better than they do on lead single “Bingo,” a song built on imaginative spontaneity. The title track to Bingo!, their upcoming second album, due out June 12th via Mothland (Gloin, Yoo Doo Right, TVOD) and Bella Union (Modern Nature, Plantoid, Ezra Furman), is rippling with serrated mutant disco exuberance that takes inspiration from the mundane and quickly pulls the rug out from underneath it.
With a dense bass fuzz, hairpin drums, and guitars that dart around corners with laser focus precision, the band are locked in and grooving. It’s a post-punk boogie at it’s most aerobic, clanking and contorting as bingo letters are called by Éliane Viens with a charismatic charm and a melodic stab of rhythmic vocals that snap perfectly into their interlocking puzzle. It’s contorted and delightful, the song sharpening La Sécurité’s B-52s and PYLON influences into something more alien, The video, directed by Philippe Beauséjour is really stunning, using animation and paper collage to capture the song’s propulsive energy.
Speaking about the song, the band shared:
"'Bingo' is a working title that Melissa used to save the demo when we were working on the song. The lyrics came later, following a suggestion from Félix, who suggested describing a game of Bingo, putting into words the social life in a retirement home. Elderly people with the heart of a child, hence the references to Orange Crush, little hats, etc. The bass line and its tone are a tribute to Death From Above 1979."