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The Liquor Store is a Montreal-based band composed of 6 young and accomplished musicians. Since 2015, the band has brought their contagious and danceable energy to multiples festival stages, including at the Montreal Jazz Fest, Festival de Jazz de Lévis and Festijazz de Rimouski. During that time, they’ve also toured extensively across Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes.

The Liquor Store's performances always impress, whether raucous and sweaty on stage or intimate, sophisticated and thoughtful in the studio. With 3 albums to their credit, the band explores a diversity of genres - R&B, funk, hip-hop, soul, electronica and jazz - and offers a fresh vision of urban music in Quebec.

Their new album Colossus, released on October 2021, a dark jazz fantasy. Straight from the most convoluted and obscure corners of the sextet’s creative minds, Colossus is a conceptual suite of instrumentals designed to entrance with its ever-evolving colour palette of emotions; relentless, cathartic and deeply reflective.

Created entirely during the pandemic, recorded and produced in a dozen different places, Colossus is the most spiritual and conceptual work the band has done so far. With no lyrics, no clear message, the album's 7 rhythmic and dynamic tracks will charm audiences with a mix of skillful jazz and funk with sci-fi and retro colors.

Colossus was nominated at the ADISQ for the best jazz album of the year 2022.

His biting melodies and his boosted rhythmic section stimulate the senses and provide an album that is ideal for release on the dancefloor.