VICTIME’s Simon Provencher shares new track “Choix Multiples,” announces Mesures EP

Simon Provencher, guitarist for Montreal dance punks VICTIME, has shared the first new single off his upcoming EP, Mesures. “Choix Multiples” is a hypnotic track filled with swirling acoustic and electric guitar loops, clarinets, and synth, that sits at the intersection between ambient music and off-kilter psychedelia.

Provencher had the following to say about the track:

“The song, written in three parts, spends all of its energy and volume in its first minute as the overwhelming percussion of Olivier Fairfield obscures the hypnotic guitars and diffuse clarinet lines played by Elyze Venne-Deshaies,” says Provencher. “In the second section, prepared guitars ring out oblique reverberations as if played in reverse while the drums finally tire down and relent, giving way to cymbal resonances and subtle overtones. The song ends on a complex interplay between clarinet, cymbals, and guitar, slowly and windingly deflating until complete silence. The title (translated: Multiple choices) is a direct reference to the four clarinet parts that share the melody through the stereo field but also evokes the possibilities of artistic creation. “

Check out the video below.

Mesures is out on March 26, 2021, via Montreal’s Michel Records.

Simon Provencher
Mesures

1. Choix multiples
2. Mesures
3. Pesée
4. Toutes ces réponses
5. Et quart
6. Repus