Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Best of 2016 #4: Duchess Says - Sciences Nouvelles (Bonsound/Slovenly)

I'm gathering material to get my blogging back on track, and I have a couple of ideas in the can. In the meantime, I'm shooting for a regular Wednesday updates, dear readers. We're getting there, we're getting there...

Montreal's Duchess Says combine the confronational early days of punk, blasts of noise and angular new wave. They've been making music in the always fertile Montreal music scene since 2003. Their first two albums were released on the always diverse and strange record label, Alien8 Records, home to other musical weirdos like Picastro, Nadja, Mecha Fixes Clocks and more. This is their first for the more indy styled label Bonsound, and their first for California's Slovenly Records worldwide.

Slovenly makes a perfect home for this band, where they're right at home with other electro-punkers like Puff and fellow Montrealer's Red Mass.

Simply put, this band blurs musical lines, and are difficult to categorize, but they are firmly planted in the weirder ends of the 80s electro movement.

No comments:

Post a Comment