Jesuslesfilles - Une Belle Table (2010)

Between working full time and taking night classes, I think the phrase that best describes my general state of mind is "skull-fucked". This is always most apparent when I sit down and attempt to write blog posts. I know that what I'm listening to is good, great even. Jesuslesfilles, which translates to "Jesus The Girls", is a fucking awesome 5-piece from Montreal. They play music I can only think to describe as Blonde Redhead trying to do The Strokes, en francais.

But to elaborate further? Well, if only I could get that giant cock, tattooed with the word "prerequisites", to quit obliterating my neurons.

Just listen to both "Tes Yeux" and "Mon Violon" to know why this band might be something to add to your collection. The whole record, from start to finish, is really quite great. I've listened to it about 15 times already, while the processes of aerobic respiration have their way with my brain.

A shout out to the consistently wonderful music blog Ongakubaka for enlightening me to the presence of this band.

11 songs.

The Bawdy Electric - A Modern Frontier (2012)

These lovely lads hail from the frozen, frigid north known as Montreal. I don't think they have any songs in French, which I can only assume means they get excluded from all respectable cultural events in Francophone Canada. Come to think of it, is there some kind of rivalry in the city's music scene between that perform in one language or the other? I'm imagining some pretty stellar street dance-offs between members of the rock community.

The Bawdy Electric put together pleasing pop-rock with big guitars and sing along melodies. This track instantly reminds me of power pop acts like Rick Springfield and Teenage Fanclub, with its impassioned vocals mixed with a pulsing snare hits that can't help but get my head bobbing along in cadence. This is the kind of stuff that I could see getting more than one rotation on mainstream radio, and hopefully these guys will get a taste of a larger audience sometime in their future.

It's big, it's fun, and you can pump your fists in the air like its 1986 while playing it. What more could you want?

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The Bawdy Electric - A Modern Frontier (2012)