La Sécurité - Bingo!

This second record, ‘Bingo!’, from Montreal art-punk party starters La Sécurité sees the collective return with a breakneck full-length that remains mostly at a blisteringly relentless pace throughout its 10-track tirade.


The bedlam begins with the powerhouse ‘Snack City’ - a mesmeric ripper that could induce a paroxysm of frenzy on the masses with its motorik Osees-like cadence - before ‘Deny’ then sees the quintet channel Talking Heads and Bodega, making for a New York-esque, off-kilter, funk-like fever dream for the late nights.


From the antsy psychedelic funk of ‘Detour’ to the heady pint-spiller that is the album’s fidgety title track - akin to an intergalactic Squid with its sci-fi synth-stabs - La Sécurité’s second outing remains a thrill-ride throughout its short and sweet art-punk disco carnival. Whilst urgency remains mostly a consistent theme, ‘Bingo!’ does have its rare mellow moments where the sonic mania simmers down: ‘Princesse’ is a meander towards the celestial, whereas the fittingly-titled ‘Chill Pill’ sees the band bring things down a little for a somnolent reverie.


Admittedly, ‘Bingo!’ is at its best at its most bonkers. From the chainsaw gnawing bass of ‘Trixie’ to the dizzying cacophony that is the closer in ‘Ketchup’, the album is a ricocheting riot. While La Sécurité might not be breaking new ground, ‘Bingo!’ is still heaps of fun - and sometimes that’s ideal.