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Bad Flirt

Profile of Bad Flirt

Type(s) of Music: Punk, indie-pop

Names of Members of Group:

Jasamine White-Gluz
Evan Dubinsky
Laura Lloyd
Nick Knowles
Raf De La Durantaye

Place of Origin: Montreal, Canada

Year the Act Began: 2002

Musical Influences:

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Bad Flirt History

Bad Flirt picture Armed with an acoustic guitar, some drum loops and a Greyhound bus pass, Bad Flirt was once just a touring solo project for singer/songwriter Jasamine White Gluz. She dove into the burgeoning Montreal scene in 2002 quickly, a then small but vibrant community. This was during the same embryonic period that yielded the scene’s indie pop ambassadors Arcade Fire, The Unicorns and Stars.

By 2005, Jasamine had decided to expand Bad Flirt into a full group by enlisting various musicians she had met in her travels. As a result, there were two releases: the EP Six Ways To Break Your Heart and the 7”/Cd Single Head On. These albums sold thousands of copies over the band’s intense North American touring schedule that included shows with Paramore The Kills, The Thermals, Bayside, Lightning Bolt and Rogue Wave. It was also during this time that Bad Flirt garnered the attention of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, who proclaimed in the media that Bad Flirt was their favorite new band.

Following their hectic touring, the band buckled down with famed award winning producer Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Wolf Parade) to create Virgin Talk.

Bad Flirt pic The idea for Virgin Talk stemmed from the band‘s love for a certain 90‘s family sitcom. Using the ideas of youth and childhood memories as the backdrop, Bad Flirt created an homage to the splendour of innocence.

Virgin Talk is high-energy pop rock that's chalk full of stellar hooks with perfectly archetypal post-punk bass lines. From the danceable chaos of Hiroshima Mon Frere to the lingering lines of Separate Rooms, Virgin Talk is a ‘stuck-in-your-head-for-days’ kind of album. Bad Flirt invited Davey Von Bohlen (Promise Ring, Cap N Jazz) to sing a duet on the album, the band being heavily influenced by Von Bohlen’s works.

The immediate critical acclaim of Virgin Talk, including a spot on Punknews.org’s Top 20 Punk albums of 2008, lead to many more opportunities. Some of these opportunities included a headlining spot at Toronto’s Virgin Fest alongside the Foo Fighters, Against Me! And MGMT, as well as the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be the sole opening act for Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las’ hometown comeback show at the Blender Theatre at Gramercy in NYC.

Virgin Talk was released in Canada in October via Kartel/Universal Music.

Some reviews:

Montreal's Bad Flirt takes a legitimate stab at capturing Metric's title of Canada's coolest female-fronted rock act. There's lots to like on this disc, which wins you over more with each listen. T’cha Dunlevy, Montreal Gazette

You can tell some bands are going to be great just by looking at their picture. Bad Flirt are one such group…Had Virgin Talk come out in July, we might have been tempted to dub it the soundtrack for the summer. -Chart Magazine

Montreal-based indie pop outfit brimming with sugary melodies, dance-punk drive and failed romantic overtures…sparkling sound falls somewhere between Metric and UK shoegazers Lush -Eye Weekly

While their Bangles-meets-Metric sound could give you an aspartame headache, an energetic vibrancy shines through angular guitar lines and flippant boy-girl harmonies on the full-length Virgin Talk. Plus, they love the Circle Jerks! -Village Voice

One of Montreal's more intriguing and talked-about acts finally releases its debut disc, Virgin Talk…Bad Flirt have been doing it on their own for years, redefining the ethics of DIY on the road, in the studio and on the web. What we have here is a pretty solid pop rock record from start to finish, highlighted by four-on-the-floor beats, girl-boy-girl vocals, crunchy guitars and headlong bass. -Hour

Bad Flirt’s Virgin Talk is sort of like a kitten with rabies — cute yet vicious. The Montreal band’s second full-length release has all of the raw components of full-scale pop: hooks, harmonies and Jasamine White-Gluz’s sugar-sweet voice -Exclaim

With penetrating hooks and sky-high melodies (and titles lifted from episodes of a popular ’90s sitcom—Google and ye shall find), it’s a record that grabs you instantly, and with such pop smarts and rock muscle, don’t even try to escape its clutches. -Montreal Mirror

After an arty noise-bending introduction, the five-piece band rips through riffy high-speed tracks charged with percolating rhythms that induce not mere bobbing, but genuine dancing—all-out attitudinal hip-swinging, hair-shaking, shoulder-rolling, butt-wiggling, sexy- pouty-facing and hand-gesturing dancing -Vue Weekly

Bad Flirt plunges headlong into sublime pop textures—dual-girl harmonized vocals, simple-but-driving Ringo-style drumming, neat, song-serving guitars similar to both The Bangles and Sleater-Kinney and tasteful keyboard hooks—that never falter in these dozen tracks and at no point let listeners wander off course, because they never stretch beyond the three and-a-half-minute pop song structure… these are the elements of Virgin Talk that make the album an incredible listen. -Ground Control magazine

A sparkling stockpile of gnashing new wave-y guitars and confectionary-sweet melodies. -Halifax Chronicle-Herald

There are no average songs on Virgin Talk, and it should garner Bad Flirt the fame of which they are currently on the cusp. -Discorder