Montreal show-stoppers Dangereens shaped in correct rock’n’roll vogue.
“I used to be in one other band earlier than, and Felix [Brisson] got here to see our final present,” frontman Hugo Chatrand explains. “After the present he mentioned: ‘Hey man, that was fairly good.’ So we talked. A while after, I discovered him on Fb and I mentioned: ‘Do you wish to begin a band?’ He mentioned: ‘Certain.’ After which I mentioned: ‘Okay, do you play an instrument?’ As a result of I simply requested him as a result of he seemed cool, ?”
Fortunately, Brisson was pretty much as good at taking part in guitar as he was at sporting cowboy boots. The Canadian marvel twins discovered appropriate sidemen, and in 2018 Dangereens had been born. Simply don’t ask them what it means; they’re not precisely positive.
There’s a magical sound that occurs in your head when you concentrate on rock’n’roll. Not within the generic sense, however the sacred geometry that rearranges your DNA. The Stones had it in ’69, the Dolls in ’72, Hanoi Rocks in ’81. Dangereens have it proper now.
“At first, the Stones had been a giant affect,” Says Chatrand. “However the factor is I’m extra into fifties rock’n’roll and forties rhythm and blues, and the opposite guys just like the heavier stuff from the seventies and eighties. So getting that collectively kinda naturally created that type of seventies glam sound. It waslike going again to that fifties rock’n’roll however taking part in it by a Marshall stack.”
The wonderful results of this bedraggled fusion is Powerful Luck, their debut album, a pocket symphony of arduous instances and beautiful melodies. It’s 1955 meets 1974, bent-nosed hooligans meets dandified decadents. It’s Victorian lace and purple leather-based boots. And, befitting an album with that prophetic title, it ain’t been a straightforward trip.
Powerful Luck was initially launched on German label Alien Snatch in Might of 2020. However even Dangereens’ informal brilliance was no match for a world pandemic.
“We put out the album in the course of the pandemic, pondering by the point we attain June we’ll have the ability to put it on the market stay,” says Chatrand. “We had been very mistaken. So we sidelined for 2 years.”
Luck intervened final yr when Michigan arduous rock band Ghosts Of Sundown heard Powerful Luck and urged their label, Golden Robotic, take a hear.
“They preferred us and requested us if we wished to file some new music for them,” Chatrand explains. “We mentioned positive, however we’ve got this actually good album that no one heard.”
Golden Robotic have re-released Powerful Luck in a remastered version with two bonus tracks. And the band are prepared once more to hit the highway. “We’re speaking concerning the US and Europe subsequent yr. We wish to go all over the place.”
