Last night (September 27), line in Sotternea climbed the stairs and front door for Ribbon skirtMontreal outfit after a punk, breathing a new life into the stage. Their new entry Bite They were boasted by critics – even exclaiming! The best albums of 2025 The list – and campus radio receivers since it came out in April, so the crowd was not surprised.
Hotly from the drainage of a historical performance in the mass of the hall of Toronto for Polaris Music Prize Gala, tape skirt brought Socan Polaris Song Prize The candidate “The wrong planet” at home, delivering it urgently for the audience, striving for catharsis. While it is spinning on the favorites of Shoegaze-y “CUT” and “OFF Rez”, the tape skirt also demonstrated the new single “Lucky8” in anticipation of their upcoming Pencesacola EP release, which they describe as “Appendix to Bite. “
The tape skirt was first sewn in 2018, when the main participants in Tashiina Buswa (vocals) and Billy Riley (guitar) met in the Concordia journalism program and began to shoot. Initially releasing music as a language of love, they changed their name in 2024 to reflect the transition to a darker, more introspective sound territory.
Named after traditional clothing for the indigenous peoples, which is worn in North America, the project operates as a way for the Bouquet to reunite with its culture, language and traditions of Anishinaabe. In La Sotteerenea, Busva covered her own skirt when she delivered a frightening line from “Cut”: “You say that someday we laugh at it / I will never go, I will never go.”
During their set, the presence of a strip skirt on the stage remained magnetic, with a large number of screams and pushing. If it were not for the excellent music coming out of the speakers, you would have thought that Riley was playing an air guitar, by the way, his body freely participated on the instrument. This is the type of speech that makes you understand why David Burn says that some music should be tested live in order to understand.
IN Pop MontrealThe tape skirt made it clear that they attracted attention, like no other modern, both on stage and on the turned off. Personally, like a rabbit on the cover of their album, my eyes (and ears) are widely open.
