Released on Dine Alone Records on October 27, 2023, Montreal’s new-age punk outfit NOBRO’s debut full-length album, Set Your Pussy Free, is a caustic, celebratory, and gloriously unhinged party-punk firework show. Shortlisted for the 2024 POLARIS Music Prize and nominated for Rock Album of the Year at the 2025 JUNO Awards, the record embodies the ecstatic pursuit of personal escape and liberation, even as the walls close in. A 21st-century power-punk analog to Born to Run, it rages against the restrictive pressures of modern life and dares them to a game of chicken. If a hurricane is bearing down on NOBRO, they’re spitting into it—arm in arm, middle fingers raised.
NOBRO is the space where members Kathryn McCaughey and Karolane Carbonneau take risks, push boundaries, and carve out their own unapologetic sound. It’s a place to cultivate power and happiness in a hard, unforgiving world—where the stakes are high. “Music is where we lift each other up,” says McCaughey. “I wish it was more like a fairy tale. We just want this fucking thing to work. But we’re all gonna succeed together, or we’re all gonna fail together.”
Produced by Dave Schiffman, Set Your Pussy Free is the culmination of years of work, hundreds of shows, and thousands of miles since the band’s formation in 2014. McCaughey and Carbonneau have shaped NOBRO into one of the fiercest and most electrifying bands in Canada. The record rides the momentum of a string of blistering singles and EPs, including 2020’s Sick Hustle and 2022’s Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar.
The buzz around NOBRO is impossible to ignore. Iggy Pop played their track “Bye Bye Baby” on his BBC Radio 6 show, and a fictional band in the Netflix series The Imperfects covered their songs. In addition to selling out raucous live shows across Canada, the band has toured Europe and supported heavy-hitters like PUP, Flogging Molly, blink-182, Alexisonfire, Billy Talent, Fidlar, and The OBGMs. This spring, they’re heading out on their first North American headline tour.
NOBRO is just getting started.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.