La SÉCURITÉ
New Single “Detour”
Mothland & Bella Union Joint Release
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DAVID ELKIN // PUBLICIST
LYDIA KRUMPER // PUBLICIST
The band’s 2023 debut, Stay Safe! is manic yet surprisingly laid-back, painting unique sonic graffiti that meanders on the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock. For the full-length, the collective turned to producer Samuel Gemme at Gamma Recording Studio (Corridor, Population II), crafting songs that inhibit the ethos of the Riot Grrrl movement flush with urgency, with a dash of melancholia spread throughout.
This year, they returned with the Stay Safe! REMIXED, including remixes from Born at Midnite, The Mauskovic Dance Band and Freak Heat Waves, giving listeners a yet another fix of their “addictively saccharine angular pop” as The Line of Best Fit raved. 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, Focus Wales, FIJM, New Colossus and Sled Island, while also sharing the stage with the likes of Automatic, Death Valley Girls, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Margaritas Poridas, Exek, and Civic.
They recently released new single and video “Detour” as a very special joint release with Bella Union and home label Mothland. The dancy-topsy-curvy cut picks up right where the band’s debut album Stay Safe! left off: equal parts motorik beats, off-kilter arrangements, and minimalistic melodic hooks that are eminently sharp and danceable, though now with a distinctive raw edge.
Lead singer Éliane Viens-Synnott says, "We recorded the song with an old friend of mine Renny Wilson. It was refreshing to watch him work on his instincts, trying to keep takes and tones as natural as possible, keeping everything open-ended to see where it could lead us. And since we know each other so well, it felt like he already knew what our music should sound like."
Of “Detour,” Bella Union’s Simon Raymonde says, “Working with my wife Abbey, I have become adept at processing the subtle differences between her delivery of a report from a gig she ‘really liked’, to one she was ‘blown away’ by. In March, Abbey saw La Sécurité in New York and her messages back to me were as excitable as I could remember in the 13 years we’ve been together. Maybe only her expressions of love for Chappell Roan earlier this year were comparable!”
He continues, “In May at The Great Escape, I was finally able to hear and see for myself. They were everything she described and more. Way more. Appeals to me on so many levels, musically and culturally, touching on my own post-punk history, but when we invited them for lunch to our house and had a beautiful getting to know each other, THAT clinched it for me. Working in today’s peculiar music industry is only made tolerable by surrounding yourself with good people, who work hard, are honest and thoughtful. They seem like they tick all those boxes. Vive La Sécurité.”