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Last Updated: 12/16/2009

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Status: Single
City: Montreal
State: Quebec
Country: CA
Signup Date: 9/20/2008
July 8, 2009 - Wednesday 
http://www.chartattack.com/reviews/70427/think-about-life-debut-family-live


On a night intended to celebrate the terrific and near flawless summer party starter that is Montreal trio Think About Life's latest album, Family, the group's great set was bested by opening act tUnE-yArDs' greater eclectic set, and then dwarfed by another local act, electro-shockers The Cougarettes' greatest set a few blocks westward on a rainy Beaubien street.

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The Cougarettes [...] on the other hand, was an entirely different world of impressive mixing techniques, tricked out vocals and some very flashy audiovisual equipment. Flanked by three male musicians, frontwoman Cardy shouted emasculating insults, her voice roboticized and eviscerated by the guys working the musical equipment. It was an impressive feat considering earlier this year on Lil Wayne's tour, T-Pain seemingly was unable to use auto-tuner live despite having unlimited resources. Mixed entirely by one of the members on the fly, every spastic and uncomfortable electronic jolt had a unique, warped fingerprint not usually present in most uniform, cold electronic music.

The Cougarettes were mostly danceable, although the aural assault occasionally breached the atonal digital hardcore of Atari Teenage Riot. It was dark, discofied, bpm techno, all delivered with immaculate sound quality and much poise courtesy of the band's lead singer. Keep an eye out for them, even if their EP fails to capture the violent energy of their manic live set.