Duchess Says
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Duchess Says nous offre un répertoire de chansons moog rock très imagées et des performances incroyablement intenses. La formation a comme mandat de décontextualiser le rock et de promouvoir simultanément sa Church of Budgerigars.
Duchess Says a été fondé par quatre membres influents de la Church of Budgerigars qui ont décidé de collaborer ensemble sur un projet musical commun. Leur but était d’assurer une représentation fidèle du message de la Duchess à travers un dialogue artistique précis. Composé d'Annie-Claude (voix, keytar, guitare), Phil (guitare, basse, feedbacks) et Simon (beats lo-fi, batterie et bruits douteux), Duchess Says propose un répertoire moog-rock aux images fortes et des performances scéniques extrêmement intenses. Ils ont partagé les planches avec plusieurs groupes de renommée internationale, dont Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Ariel Pink, The Black Lips et The Buzzcocks. Leurs influences musicales vont du no wave, new wave et punk au cinéma et aux arts visuels. Si vous portez attention, vous pourriez les voir jouer dans des endroits peu communs tels qu'un terrain de golf, une vitrine de magasin, un édifice vacant, etc. Duchess Says a comme mandat de décontextualiser le rock et de promouvoir simultanément sa Church.
“Negative Thoughts,” a six-minute thunderstorm that builds slowly before unleashing torrents of distorted guitars, crashing drums, sirens, and the dynamo that is singer Annie-Claude Deschenes. You can almost hear her whipping a crowd into a frenzy.
Brooklyn VeganThe band are nearly a household name in the Montreal underground, but they still haven't made a name outside of the city which, frankly, is shocking...Their arty synth punk is part Devo, part Black Flag and part B-52's, the kind of skewed pop that only musicians raised on experimental music could make.
Exclaim!That commotion turned out to be singer Annie-C Deschênes of Duchess Says, a one-woman mosh pit of sorts. She raced around like the Tasmanian Devil, alternately hugging and punching, and wrestling people while shrieking along to her band’s aggressive no wave. At the end of the set, Annie-C organized a race among audience members, who gleefully ran around the periphery of the lot.
PitchforkYou heard Devo in 1985...you’ve heard songs by Suicide. Then you know what Duchess Says sounds like. The songs are short, the game is tight, and the visual aspect is astonishing.
The New York TimesHyped up keys and defiant drums perfectly capture the essence of the '80s on Montreal band Duchess Says' new single I Repeat Myself.
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