If it wasn’t already obvious through the rest of Lemongrab’s discography, the band is comfortable talking with their mouth full. Fast and hard at a twelve-ish-minute runtime, their new EP Another Kind of Freedom gets a lot done quickly. The project is silly and frenetic, full of lackadaisical wit and cartoon anvils, cowbells and alien beams. Gaëlle Cordeau, the band’s lead vocalist and writer, whines and fast-talks through run-on sentences that work like a relentless motor while the drums keep pace.

In content, the EP criticizes precisely what the title suggests: supposedly open doors, the personal wreckage of the political and the illusions of liberation that keep capitalism alive, whether that’s the structure of the music industry on “Pay to Play,” the complications of relationship dynamics on “No Receipt,” or the male ego’s stubborn grip on cultural narratives on “Yoko,” which prods at men who still blame Yoko Ono for ruining everything. 

It’s this tension between being disaffected and relentlessly bouncy that really hammers the project’s politics home. On Another Kind of Freedom, Lemongrab is speeding their beater car down the hyperconsumption roadway and crashing it because they were looking at Instagram Reels. Also, for the record, I second an imminent sex strike against men who believe Yoko broke up The Beatles too.