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  • The Prosecco Diaries by Femmes Voyous

    The Prosecco Diaries by Femmes Voyous

    Album: The Prosecco Diaries 

    Artist: Femmes Voyous

    Released: July, 07, 2025; Witch House Studios 

    Punk bands fronted by ladies, while not unicorn rare, are not exactly a dime a dozen the way punk bands packed full of dudes are. So, when you tell me that I should check one out, I am always happy to oblige. Femmes Voyous hails from Edmonton, Canada and as their name suggests (Rogue Women in French) aren’t your stereotypical “girl power” packing pop princesses. Their music is loud with in your face lyrics that are often as humorous as they are scathing. 

    The opening song on the album is “Phoenix and Raven”. It is as much a thesis statement for the album as it is a punk rock girl boss anthem. Immediately as the guitars kick in and the drums start pounding, you can tell you’re going to have a good time with this song; something, if you like this song, I can guarantee will continue for the rest of the album. I really can’t overstate how this song stakes its flag securely in the ground and declares—this band is two girlfriends out to have a good time rocking out together.    

    “Candy” is another that really sets the stage. The guitar work is fantastic. The lyrics are poppy and fun in a way that really works with the metaphor the song employs. It is an extremely well put together rock song. So much so that I wouldn’t fault you if you looked up the song credits to see if it’s a cover. It is of course not, but wouldn’t be out of place on a Blondie album, no doubt. 

    Now “Punk Rock Boys” is where the Femmes Voyous’s scathing humor really shines. It is an ode to shitty boyfriends of the punk rock variety. I have no idea who the person is who inspired the song but consider that dweeb thoroughly roasted. When the chorus comes in, then they hit you with the lyric, “I loved his crusty ways” it’s so meta; I just find it endlessly hilarious. It’s my favorite song, followed in a close second by “Dive Bar”. Another great, upbeat song in the same vain as Phoenix and Raven, but this one includes a great bit, featuring a mock phone call from a boyfriend. In my head canon its the same crusty dude from Punk Rock Boys, but who knows. In it, the the boyfriend is whining about who is going to make him breakfast and the line “Your Fucking Mom” is dropped and again it just kills me. Like damn, go off queen. 

    “The Prosecco Diaries” as a freshman offering goes hard. It is a blast from beginning to end. It’s all about showing you a good time and quite possibly might even fight you if you try to be a curmudgeon. If you didn’t have fun by the end of it, you should probably go to the doctor and make sure you’re not dead.  

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  • Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost by How I Became Invisible

    Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost by How I Became Invisible

    Album: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost

    Artist: How I Became Invisible

    Released: April 25, 2025; Anthropic Principle Records

    It is very hard to me right now not to claim that How I Became Invisible is my favorite band, but picking a favorite band to me is like trying to pick your favorite child. They are each unique, cool and bring meaning to your life in their own special way. So instead, I will just say that How I Became Invisible’s 2023 release “better or the next best thing” meant a lot to me so I was absolutely stoked when “Everything Not saved Will Be lost” dropped. Emily Reed is an amazing song writer who puts her heart into every song. I could simply not wait to dive into this release.

    The album starts off with the song “Make It A Good Ending” and really sets the stage for the album. It is chalked full of sci-fi imagery. This absolutely continues throughout the rest of the album to great effect. The literal end of the world has never sounded so eerily hopeful.

    The break out song of the album has to be “Biblically Accurate Arby’s Witch”. The synth on this song goes so hard in such a specific way; it is hard to not wonder if Motion City Soundtrack at least in part, did not inspired this song. It’s an upbeat high energy love song, which I can’t say has ever been my jam, but this one just hits. I think it perfectly captures the joy and longing of being perfectly completely in love. I get wildly happy just listening to it.

    The next song I really feel I need to give accolades to is “This is not a Place of Honor”. The atmosphere presented by this song is thicker than that of Venus. I said earlier the the first track was chalked full of sci-fi imagery, well this song is like that as well but for sci-fi vibes. It’s technically not an instrumental as there are two kinds of vocalizations in the song. First, there are barely audible vocals that sound like radio transmissions from something that was lost long ago. Then, Emily adds faint scream like vocalizations towards the end of the song. Both are pretty incomprehensible and when combined with the instrumentation, really create the feeling of insolation and dread. Now here is the creepy part: while the transmissions are hard to understand, when listening to track, they are listed in the lyric sheet of the album (at least on Bandcamp). I am not going to spoil what they say here but I do suggest you look them up after listening to the song a couple of times. It really adds to the haunting vibes when you find out after the fact that the message you didn’t understand and likely ignored was in fact a warning. This is, in my humble opinion, is peak storytelling within the medium.

    The last song I feel needs mentioned is “You Are (Not) The Problem”. It is just a really solid trans resistance anthem that succeeds at being both a bop that makes you want to move your feet and a fight song that makes you want to stand up and fight. The choir piece at the end is the cherry on top.

    “Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost” is a fantastical romp through space. It tells a story of impeding doom and the will to continue to not only fight in the face of devastation, but love in spite of it all. It is the message we need these days and having it set to a ripping Pop-punk soundtrack makes it even better. Everyone should definitely check it out if they haven’t already.

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