Cobras spitting venom
has been a known behaviour
of the deadly snake for a thousand million years
I read a paper, and it’s not an old wives’ tale
There’s nothing tame about Princess Liar’s return. Julie Montan’s sixth studio album, Tell Me the Truth Do You Love Me or Not, arrives after three years of gestation — a serpentine work of fury, wit, and confrontation. Divided into six searing chapters, the record peels away every layer of pretence until only raw instinct remains. “Sometimes you gotta go down a snake to find home,” Montan says. “Become the master of your own dark materials — ‘the game’ thinks it sets the pace, but that’s neo-liberal capitalism forcing pace, lobotomising your connection to muse. Trust your own pace; decline the promise of $$$ from very bad men who only care to rob you blind.”
Filmed on location in Djabugay Country (Speewah) and Yidinji Country (Redlynch), Gimuy (Cairns, FNQ), the accompanying video isn’t just a single clip — it’s a full-album film, a living myth that blends ritual with rebellion. Across its frames, Princess Liar mutates between digital avatars and reptilian form, her eyes widening into slit-pupiled menace as she moves through cyber grids, bamboo cathedrals, and dreamlike Australian scrub. It’s part performance art, part punk ethnography — the kind of vision that feels both ancient and imminent, sacred and absurd.
Directed & Edited by Keziah Warren, with Photography and Cinematography by Toby Stanley and Art Direction by Julie Montan, the film stars Julie and her scaly co-star Dude the Python — the serpent familiar and silent witness to her transformation.
A vigilante thesis in riot grrrl and outsider punk, Tell Me the Truth Do You Love Me or Not stands shoulder to shoulder with X, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Pretenders, X-Ray Spex, The Slits, and L7. It’s a record that bares its teeth — snarling at the hollow promises of capitalism, dissecting false intimacy, and reclaiming the female voice as weapon, ritual, and remedy. Montan’s alter ego — the anthropomorphic, parsel-tongued Princess Liar — emerges here as a Leia turned Liar: a sworn enemy of AI, walking beside her light-sabre companion Dude the Python-of-Speewah, a mythic partnership of human and animal sight. Together they turn vengeance into philosophy, survival into spectacle.
Tell Me the Truth Do You Love Me or Not will be available exclusively on Bandcamp — and will not appear on Spotify — in protest of the platform’s exploitative practices.
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