LOCAL SPOTLIGHT: LE COUNTRY CLUB

With concerts coming back I’ve been exposed to a burgeoning local music scene in Provo, Utah that is thirstier than the sexually deprived college residents which dwell there. To my non-Utah readers I’d apologize, but that would be the least sincere apology in my own short lifetime which is saying something because I once was forced to apologize to a senior on the BYU women’s swim team my freshman year because I said her voice sounded terrible a fact which was objectively true. Her voice sounded like a concrete mixer. It was raspy from being sick combined with overuse, and she was yelling at someone fifty yards away. In short, I will not apologize for my coverage of the Provo music scene because it is dope.

When you think of a country club you think of rich, pretentious people who have trust funds for all their children and who are on their third wife who is only a few years older or maybe even younger than the husband’s oldest child. You think of golf and tennis and old people. You think of lemonade out by the pool and affairs between sexually repressed older women who hate their husbands and other country club members or maybe even the staff (in case you didn’t know and have been living under a rock since forever, those women are many times called cougars, not of the BYU variety).

None of that applies to band(?), artist(?), musical act(?) (or whatever they define themselves as), Le Country Club. Le Country Club definitely doesn’t act like a proper lady and throws any and all conventional norms out the window. Nobody puts Baby in a corner! Sure, Dirty Dancing takes place at the Catskills which isn't a country club but close enough in vibe, right? Regardless, the point is that Le Country Club throws out all conventional norms with dope-ass beats and bass lines that slap you, not vice versa. You don’t slappa da bass, it slaps you.

Or at least all of this applies to Le Country Club’s most recent release, “CHEAP,” out now! Despite its title, the song is anything but cheap. It’s a certified bop. It makes you want to dance in a way that you would only see from Finn and Marceline would on adventure time. If you don’t understand this, then I feel sorry for you. There is no better way to describe it. I did put on Le Country Club’s other stuff and then I got distracted and so while my ears were listening, my brain wasn’t. But I can vouch for CHEAP!