Bridal Party - Speak Easy

What this video is

Released August 2019 as part of Bridal Party's debut full-length Too Much on Kingfisher Bluez, 'Speak Easy' belongs to a cohort of late-2010s Canadian indie art-pop that emerged from Victoria and Vancouver's DIY live circuit. The band formed in 2015 out of Victoria's experimental club night and house-show ecosystem, and the album was painstakingly self-produced over two years while the band toured extensively…

Why it matters

Bridal Party occupies a distinct niche within Canadian west-coast art-pop: hook-forward songwriting inflected with bossa nova, dream pop, city pop, and jangle pop. 'Speak Easy' exemplifies their approach — soft-spoken lyricism about emotional inexpressibility set to a slow-churned percussive…