La Sécurité – Queen City Sounds and Art

La Sécurité’s vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Éliane Viens-Synnott worked with Gabriel Lapierre to produce the music video for “Hot Topic” and give it the air of a choreographed, avant-garde dance piece. Turns out it’s an edited version of an original performance video by Viens-Synottt but it fits the angular post-punk song perfectly. Its driving bass line has a danceable fluidity like something out of a Bush Tetras song but its unconventional percussion part – an almost motorik beat mixed with a percussive keyboard figure intertwining with splashes of guitar and vocals declaring self-affirmative sentiments setting boundaries in no uncertain terms. “Is there something I can do/To make this any clearer for you?/I don’t wanna talk/I just wanna dance/I don’t owe you any answers/You can fuck off with your banter/Cut the crap, you’re not funny/I don’t need a drink/I make my own money” – those words and more in the rest of the song are the kind you wish you’d hear more often even beyond the context of a dance floor where some people, almost always men, think they can take liberties because they think the setting entitles them to doling out unwanted, often aggressive attention. This song pairs a whimsical melody like a casual dismissal of the nonsense with an edgy, pulsing rhythm and dark atmospherics for an unbeatable net effect of wit and strength. Watch the video for “Hot Topic” on YouTube and follow La Sécurité at the links below. The group’s new album Stay Safe! dropped June 16 via Mothland.

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La Sécurité’s video for “Anyway” and its lo fidelity imagery and lack of color correction looks like an alternative section of V/H/S/99 but instead of a more straight ahead punk band called R.A.C.K. in the “Shredding” story line it’s a band traversing a hybrid of Goth and New Wave. The retro melodies and sound is like of a band took a lot of inspiration from Missing Persons, B-52s and a sassy, irreverent, neo-death rock band. Except in this short film there are no murderous ghosts and instead we see the life of a band on the road or playing around town, in the practice space, playing video games and performing at the kinds of small clubs most bands do and making the most of it and not looking like Goth fashion victims but rather with a joyful exuberance and sense of humor that gives some context to a song that seems to be about the petty dramas many people get into when they’re operating from an inflated sense of their own tragedies and ego but not getting dragged into it all because scene or social circle drama, who can make much time for that? Watch the video for “Anyway” on YouTube and follow La Sécurité at the links below.