Princess Liar’s new single Cobra Spit lunges from the speakers like a serpent startled mid-dream: fangs bared, rhythm coiled, ready to strike. After years away from the studio, experimental punk multi-instrumentalist Julie Montan re-emerges with her venom intact. The song, lifted from her EP Tell Me The Truth Do You Love Me Or Not, is a brilliant chemical burn: punk as social anthropology, performed through clenched teeth and laughter.
Based in North Queensland, Australia, Montan channels something ancient and personal in this song—summoning the power of Chrissie Hynde, the passion of Siouxsie, the fury of Shirley Manson, the conviction of Sinéad O’Connor, and the raw intensity of PJ Harvey. Here she distills that into a hiss and a smirk… a venomous self-defense ritual masquerading as a punk incantation.
Tell Me The Truth Do You Love Me Or Not promises six tracks of poetic warfare and raw confrontation, but Cobra Spit plants its flag first. It’s the sound of someone shedding their skin in public: messy, fearless, and vital.
“Sometimes you gotta go down a snake to find home,” she says, “become the master of your own dark materials.” It’s both invitation and warning. The lyrics turn biology into philosophy: cobras spit to survive, not to conquer. Montan translates that instinct into a metaphor for endurance in a collapsing, capitalist circus.
Cobra Spit unfolds in jolts: jagged guitars, urgent percussion, vocals that sound like they’ve been dragged through barbed wire and blessed with holy water. Each verse coils tighter around its prey, then snaps back with a sardonic grin. “If you want to break my bones, you better sharpen your wit real quick,” she taunts, a line that lands like a switchblade to the ego – yet with an almost scientific detachment that feels more punk than any sneer could.
Montan delivers an ethnography of feral female power. Her voice cuts through the static with the authority of someone who’s stared down both art-school pretenders and industry parasites. Her work occupies a rare space between biology and protest, where myth bleeds into survival instinct. She is the snake and the scholar, sputtering venom and sermon.
Filmed on location in Djabugay Country (Speewah) and Yidinji Country (Redlynch), Gimuy (Cairns, FNQ), the video for “Cobra Spit” unfolds like a fevered dream — part ritual, part glitch. Between flashes of pixelated avatars and serpent-like transformation, Princess Liar morphs into something both human and mythic: a cobra-eyed visage stalking through digital and physical realms. The surreal imagery — lizard masks in bamboo thickets, skulls and snakes on altars, and a gridded cyber-void where her slit pupils flare like warning lights — mirrors the track’s volatile pulse, fusing punk provocation with absurdist theatre. Directed & Edited by Keziah Warren, Photography/Cinematography Toby Stanley, Art Direction Julie Montan, the video stars Julie and Dude the Python.
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