New EP Alert : The She-Devils

The '60s offered quite a few campy beach movies with ginchy musical numbers featuring kids dancing along in wild appreciation. One of my favorites of this genre stars Nancy Sinatra who also performs a song in the 1966 classic The Ghost Of the Invisible Bikini. It's packs a one two punch of comedy-kiddie horror meets an excuse to parade good looking college kinds in bathing suits who writhe with pleasure to those crazy sounds of surf guitars. Yummy!

(Nancy performs at the 13:50 mark but here is the whole film for your viewing pleasure)

The She-Devils are a boy/girl Montreal duo that electronically reproduces these retro beachy tunes to perfection. They have even mastered the snap, crackle, and pop of an old record to make their brand of dreamy pop all the more vintage. I highly recommend checking out their new EP which is out now. The lead single "Come" is posted below.

A group like Noonday Underground have come before them to blend mod, soul, and bubblegum to sophisticated UK breakbeats but this is the first time I have heard someone come this close to recreating Nancy Sinatra's dead pan sex kitten voice. If you loved Mad Men for their thoughtful recreation of another time, The She-Devils will be the olive in your martini.

Canadian Electro-Chaos : Duchess Says

Imagine if Melt Banana remade Goblin's Suspiria or if the Yeah Yeah Yeahs provoked a nest of cyber bees. Duchess Says from Montreal takes electro / prog rock tools and uses them to create spastic chaos that does not rely on melody to drive their songs. They take a 2-D keyboard band experience and turn it into a 3-D force of nature that darts towards you at the speed of light.

In fact vocalist Annie Claude Deschênes might even tangle with you on stage so when I say this band comes at you, I mean it literally and figuratively. 

Meet the exact opposite of boring.