First Transmission: PONI, Brise-glace.

It feels pretty fitting for a track that translates as ‘icebreaker’ to make for the most immediate of introductions to Montréal ensemble PONI. For lopped off last week’s Album complet, it plays upon whimsical key changes à la fellow Québécois brigade Malajube, while also superbly combining guitars turning up towards the grittier end of the distortion spectrum with Fisher-Price-like synths, so as to simultaneously recall so much of Under the Western Freeway. All of which renders Brise-glace a song that we’re more than on-board with, basically…

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