For over a decade Montreal’s The Sainte Catherines were Canada’s answer to the gravel-throated punk rock jumpstarted in the late-‘80s by the U.K.’s Leatherface. After the Catherines’ dissolution vocalist Hugo Mudie put together Powernap, a band that takes the work of his previous band and injects a few more pop hooks into the mix. The result is a record that sounds like the second coming of The Broadways (minus the political overtones), so it’s only fitting that Asian Man Records would be releasing the band’s debut EP, Oreosmith.
The A.V. Club is premiering the video for “I’ll Resist,” which is both one of the EP’s most upbeat numbers and boasts a video that’s far more aggressive, paying tribute to hockey’s equivalent of seeing a unicorn: The goalie fight. Essentially a tribute to all the goalies that followed in the wake of the Philadelphia Flyer’s Ron Hextall–who racked up a record number of penalty minutes for a keeper–the video serves up a supercut of goalies brave enough to leave the crease and offer up hits of their own, with Powernap’s snarling pop-punk becoming its own version of a celebration song.
