AVEC PLAISIR IS
Guitar/Vocals — Sam Winsor
Guitar/Vocals — Sébastien Vézina
Bass/Vocals — Julien Besner
Drums — Maxime Verreault
Avec Plaisir are the Montréal indie punk quartet taking your local basement show by storm.
Described by their peers as ‘eugh’ and ‘how do you pronounce their name?’, the band has grown from their 2019 formation to deliver a stellar 2022 debut album, An Album, blending mathy riffs, gruff vocals, and earworm melodies. Sam Winsor and Sébastien Vézina’s laid back lyricism show off the band's carefree attitude while being held together by the low notes of bassist Julien Besner and explosive drumming of Maxime Verreault.
Avec Plaisir est un quatuor Montrélais indie punk à voir dans un sous-sol près de chez vous.
Abordant les choses profondes de la vie, le groupe formé en 2019 a frappé un grand coup avec son premier album, An Album, en 2022, mélangeant les rythmes math, les voix crues et les mélodies accrocheuses. Le lyricisme nonchalant et les guitares déjantées de Sam Winsor et Sébastien Vézina démontrent un refus catégorique de se prendre trop au sérieux, le tout soutenu par une fondation solide par Julien Besner à la basse et les percussions explosives de Maxime Verreault à la batterie.
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Fecking Bahamas Top Math Rock Releases 2024
Okay, you don’t need an FFO for this one – you know you’re going to love it, and we do too. Each band here puts it all on the table, and normally on splits you see bands sort of rein in the risk, so you really get the sense that everyone really trusted each other here, and that every choice was made intentionally. While generally too difficult to manage, More Friends Than Fans is a four-gy we can wholeheartedly recommend.
- Fecking Bahamas
Uproxx Best Emo Albums Of 2022
Here’s pretty much all I could find out about Avec Plaisir: this is a band of 30-somethings from Montreal that plays a kind of mathy, melodic, and unmistakably “revival” type of emo that immediately brings hometown heroes Gulfer to mind. Why every one of their song titles begins with “J” is a mystery for another time. What I know about their debut is that An Album might not be as literal as the band name itself, which translates to “with pleasure.” This isn’t the kind of music that makes 30-somethings start a band unless they had their hearts in it, and every second of An Album radiates with the joy of artists revisiting the music of their youth with a sense of purpose and chops that can only be accessed with age.
- Ian Cohen, Uproxx
More Friends Than Fans Split Review
Each band fits together well and lends the project a sense of cohesions than most splits, even good ones, often lack, but each band also has their own identity which keeps the whole thing from feeling rote. All four emphasize bright, mathy riffs and chipper hooks; where Avec Plaisir tends to deemphasize the mathy aspects of their sound, using them to provide flavor rather than honing in on them, Champagne Colored Cars brings more of a jazz flair, particularly on the lounge-emo “Microfilm.” Fox Lake’s take is the fastest paced, both their tracks constantly pushing forward and lending the split a sense of momentum leading into Narrow/Arrow’s airier, string-kissed contributions. It all has the flow of a single artist’s LP, with natural peaks and valleys. Pick it up on Bandcamp.
- Zac Djamoos, Merry-Go-Round Magazine