La Sécurité – Bingo
Montréal art-punk collective La Sécurité are back with “Bingo”, the title track to their sophomore album “Bingo!”, due June 12th on Bella Union (world) and Mothland (Canada/United States). It’s their first new material of 2026 and a strong restatement of what they do: frantic drums, crunchy bass, wiry synths, and vocalist Éliane Viens calling out bingo numbers with enough charisma to make it feel like a genuine event. The video, a cut-out paper animation directed by Philippe Beauséjour, matches the song’s propulsive, slightly unhinged energy.
The origin story is good. “Bingo” started as a working title Melissa Di Menna used to save the demo. Félix Bélisle later suggested building the lyrics around an actual bingo game — specifically the social life of a retirement home, “elderly people that are young at heart”, which accounts for the references to Orange Crush and tiny hats. The bass line, notably, is an explicit tribute to Death From Above 1979. It shows: the low end is thick and distorted, locking in tight with Kenny Smith’s hairpin drumming while the guitars dart and jab above. Disco-punk is the obvious frame — early-2000s vintage — but it moves faster and weirder than most of what that tag usually conjures.
“Bingo!” was engineered by Renny Wilson (Nap Eyes, Faith Healer) using ribbon microphones and vintage compressors, with the band recording live off-the-floor. Co-producers Bélisle and Emmanuel Éthier (Corridor, Population II, Chocolat) mixed the record, and Robin Schmidt (Pixies, The Hives, Viagra Boys) handled mastering. The band describe the album’s aesthetic as a “snowball effect — like a piece of gum at the bottom of your bag, picking up glitters, hair, etcetera” — which tracks, given that “Bingo!” threads in no wave, noise rock, and shoegaze alongside the post-punk foundation that made their Polaris Music Prize long-listed debut “Stay Safe!” land back in 2023. The full lineup: Éliane Viens (vocals, synths, percussion), Félix Bélisle (bass, synths, percussion, piano, production), Kenny Smith (drums, guitar), Laurence Anne Charest-Gagné (guitar, percussion, vocals), and Melissa Di Menna (guitar, synths, vocals, percussion). A European and UK tour starts May 16th in Paris.
Tracklist:
- Snack City
- Deny
- Detour
- Power Snoozer
- Princesse
- Bingo
- Chill Pill
- Trixie
- Nah Nah
- Ketchup
Tour Dates:
Europe:
- May 16 — Paris, FR — Supersonic Block Party
- May 17 — Nantes, FR — La Lune Froide
- May 19 — Tourcoing, FR — Le Grand Mix
- May 20 — Brussels, BE — La Source
- May 21 — Eindhoven, NL — Effenaar
- May 28 — Rotterdam, NL — Rotown
- May 29 — Berlin, DE — Urban Spree
- May 30 — Neustrelitz, DE — Immergut Festival
- June 2 — Lyon, FR — Sonic
- June 3 — Marseille, FR — Intermédiaire
- June 4 — Barcelona, ES — Primavera Pro
- June 5 — Toulouse, FR — Labo des Arts
- June 6 — Nîmes, FR — This is not a Love Song
- July 18 — Banffy Castle, Cluj, ROU — Electric Castle
- August 1 — Steinhausen, CH — Waldstock
- August 6 — Haldern, DE — Haldern Pop
UK:
- May 23 — Bristol — Dot to Dot
- May 24 — Derbyshire — Bearded Theory
- May 24 — Nottingham — Dot to Dot
- May 26 — Leeds — Oporto
- May 27 — Norwich — Voodoo Daddy’s
- July 25 — Topcliffe — Deer Shed
