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Release Date: Out Now
It sort of seems unlikely that Montreal's NOBRO are only just releasing their debut album as it feels like they've been around for ages but, then again, that's how things used to be done in the days before everyone with an iPhone could record an album and release it on TikTok. No, 'Set Your Pussy Free' is the result of some relentless gigging, fine tuning and hard partying which is what makes it such an utterly brilliant listen. Indeed, starting with the fierce, fuzzy and Ramone's inspired call to arms followed of 'Set That Pussy Free' followed by 'Let's Do Drugs' with it's Joan Jett swagger and chug gives this one of the strongest openings to an album of 2023.
The party keeps going with 'Delete Delete Delete' which rattles along with a garage-punk vibe as they sing about wanting to get their lives off the internet. Things get topical on 'A.I. Sexbots' as things are pitched somewhere between Brassy and the Jim Jones Revue before 'I Don't Feel Like It' smashes you about the head with a mixture breathless vocals and razor sharp guitars. Recent single 'Where My Girls At' is the song that, as yet, has made me want to be a girl more than any other just because of the pure togetherness at the heart of the song and the sense of wild, adventurous abandon; "Gotta find me a rock'n'roll band, yeah".
The slickest track on the album is 'Cash In On My Cachet' which thrusts and churns with a real rock'n'roll confidence and a melody that moves away from the punk of the rest of the album. The album continues to rattle on with 'Nobody Knows' which borrows from Black Sabbath, the Who and Veruca Salt while 'Let's Get Outta Here' is the road-trip anthem you didn't know you needed in your life with stabbing piano notes adding to the distorted guitars. Penultimate track 'Who The Hell Am I?' is the closest thing we get to a ballad but even the chorus hits hard and right between the eyes.
As I listen to closing track 'Gimme More (Party Through The Pain)', it dawns on me that this a debut album packed full of 100mph, lung busting, emotionally raw and brilliantly infectious and that's pretty special, right? I mean if Green Day, the Vandals or the Offspring released these songs right now people would be talking about awards and it wouldn't even sound as good as this. NOBRO are awesome and that, ladies and gentlemen, is my final word on the matter.
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