Fat Wreck Chords
2006
Dancing for Decadence
About This Album
Though they released Dancing for Decadence on Fat Wreck, the Sainte Catherines could just have easily fit among the catalog over at No Idea Records, as at times they sound like a less poppy version of Gunmoll or a more straightforward version of Planes Mistaken for Stars. (Or really, just take your pick of whatever aggressive punk band with gritty vocals you'd like to fill in the blank). The album is chock-full of super-charged, uncompromising, no-frills hardcore with an impassioned D.I.Y. attitude that borders on a street punk frame of mind (but minus the standard accompanying "Oi!"s or liberty spikes). As a band sporting three guitarists, the Sainte Catherines play fast, they play hard, and they don't really deviate much from this direct approach. They are the band for the rebellious, left-wing, grassroots activists who, though they may spend their evenings drunk in the grimy bars of the world, also possess an unexpected softer side as well. After all, the compelling "Burn Guelph Burn" simultaneously sports lines like "Send the rich kids to war and keep the poor at home," while saying "I love the way your eyes turned red when city hall burned bright.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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