“Being a bitch is not illegal”, drops Kathryn McCaughey just after the gospel intro of Better Each Day, by positively reclaiming this ugly word that begins with b. Luckily it’s not a crime to have so much nerve. Otherwise, it would have been locked up long ago.
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Second EP of the Montreal quartet NOBRO, Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar lives up to the claims contained in its title. “Shred Some Gnar” is an expression specific to the vernacular of extreme sports, used to celebrate particularly breathtaking exploits. Because they are indeed breathtaking, these 21 minutes of carefree hymns, designed to swallow your can in a hurry and rush to the stage or to face the halfpipe with your skateboard (Eat Slay Chardonnaya 93-second blitzkrieg, would have belonged in the video game’s soundtrack Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater).
Breakneck rhythms, volume at 11, contagious camaraderie; NOBRO’s wayward women practice a genre in which attitude isn’t exactly everything, but a lot. If their songs are so many engines built to run fast, the bewitching insolence of leader Kathryn McCaughey, who easily passes from nonchalance to impetuosity, is the fuel. At his side: the “heroine guitar” Karolane Carbonneau, the sensational drummer Sarah Dion and Lisandre Bourdages, the most frenetic percussionist since Andy Kaufman.
Accelerated rock lesson, Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar draws from Ramones-style gumball punk, the melodic disharmony of 1990s alternative rock, and the turn-of-the-millennium garage resurgence, on these seven tracks that could all have been on some of the best editions of the Big Shiny Tunes compilation , as these tounes are also immense and sparkling.
punk-rock
Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar
NOBRO
Dine Alone Records