Saint John-based band Little You Little Me will be playing at the Capital Complex in Fredericton this Saturday celebrating the release of their fifth studio album I’d Watch The Day Til It Died. The album is a raucously authentic mix of rock n’ roll that takes you right back to the port-city garages it started in.
Vocalist and guitarist Corey Bonnevie is one of four members who’ve spent enough time in Saint John to say it’s had an influence on their sound.
“The industrial infrastructure creates that atmosphere of things being harsh and gritty and loud,” said Bonnevie. “It’s definitely a resemblance of our live shows – on record.”
The album’s star single Racket in my Brain crashes into your ear with rowdy elegance steeped in underlying melodic riffs. Fuckushima‘s heavy-metal backdrop doesn’t take itself too seriously,broken up with fluid guitar tonals. Bonnevie says they the recorded the album to sound just like the band would live. It was all part of the process, one that didn’t need a lot of planning or prepping.
“We kept playing them until we tightened them up and then recorded them,” he said.
The band does their own recording, and Bonnevie says this process comes naturally to the band no matter what they’re working on.
“We never really sat down and said ‘this is gonna be a record’. This is more like a compilation [that] we recorded live.”
Little You Little Me’s sound is refreshing – they are true masters of rock n’ roll music and calculated noisiness. The quartet will be playing four New Brunswick venues until Dec. 12, their last stop in Sackville, N.B.
The band has played with metal bands, but they’ve also played on the same bill as pop music groups. For Bonnevie, the sound they create can fit with anything – as long as it’s fun and does each side justice.
“The live show thing is supposed to be the fun part – it’s supposed to be noisy and fun,” he said laughing. “But people always do a better job of describing it than myself.”
