Canadian Art/Noise-Punkers CRABE Announce New Album, First Single Out Now!

Photo credit: Phil Larocque

CRABE’s (Montreal, QC) special brand of "présent-punk" blends complex structures and surreal melodies. Comprised of Mertin Hoëk (Télégraphe Jungle, IDALG, Jesuslesfilles, Leamers, etc.) and Gabriel Lapierre (Après l’Asphalte, Varger, etc.), the odd duo is known for the chaos that ensues during their live performances as well as their abandon on stage, making them a must-see artist in the Quebec experimental music scene of the last 15 years.

Here's the first single Limp De Quoi from their forthcoming album Visite Du Temple Inné, out September 29, 2023 on Les Disques Dure Vie.

The duo comments: "Limp De Quoi is about life being dynamic, departures and departures, life and death, for better or for worse. These are the highs and lows of our larger-than-life, smaller-than-the-world journey. Please let yourself be carried away by this heavy, delicate music from us to you."

Listen + watch:

⼕尺闩乃㠪 - ㇄讠爪尸 ᗪ🝗 Ɋㄩㄖ讠(official single)

After 15 years of scouting the mist of a still unexplored way to make music, CRABE, formed by Mertin Hoëk and Gab Lapierre (Après l'Asphalte, BRU) clad itself in a multi-colored mantle made of art-punk, controlled chaos, and sonic surrealism. From their experimentations came a word that sums up their universe with accuracy and simplicity: Crabism.

Crabism is a visit within the inner temple of CRABE, a ride through a storm of ideas that build the strangest, most terrifying and attractive musical beast of Quebec’s musical spectrum.

After the release of Sentients in 2021, the whimsical duo is set to re-map a territory that only CRABE knows how to occupy as it does.

With the advent of the year 2023, CRABE draws from the depths of their being to release an new album September 29th, Visite Du Temple Inné. A series of reflections pushes the group to question the concept of rock ensembles. Embarrassed by pastiches, guitars, percussion and drums, the group tries to bring something fresh and dynamic to this porridge of ghosts from the past. On Visite Du Temple Inné, it is with great honors of sharing and vulnerability that the music is created.

Artist: CRABE

Title: Visite Du Temple Inné

Format: LP, CD, Digital

Label: Les Disques Dure Vie

Distribution: Cargo

Genre: Art/ Noise- Punk

Release Date: 29/09/2023

Tracks
1. Conscience universelle
2. LEB DOGGO
3. Politique Dracula 22
4. Faire de la musique
5. Je ne peux pas te dire je t'aime
6. Nightmom
7. 2020
8. Limp de quoi
9. Nos pères se meurent
10. Pourquoi
11. Personne proximité

Links
Bandcamp: https://crabe.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp: https://www.facebook.com/crabecrabe
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7fOsYKtUW8t7EVXpohPmSv?dl_branch=1&si=-BOzJryrSS2EMG1sgC15QQ
Label: https://www.durevie.ca