Hi everybody !!
Here is the perfect record for this insolent sunny december Shanghai is offering us
Aids Wolf - Cities of Glass
Released Sept. 2008 on Skingraft Records / Lovepump United
Aids Wolf are a Montreal-based antisocial noise-rock band. Two of their members are behind the award-winning Seripop printing studio. This is their second LP.
Cities of Glass is a difficult record to recommend.
It runs the gamut from merely irritating (at it’s mildest) to physically agonizing when in full swing.
Despite this, there is an extremely engaging quality to their sound and you can’t help but be drawn into their dark little corner of dissonant guitars and asymmetrical rhythm.
Don’t let this newfound accessibility fool you, Aids Wolf haven’t softened since their last LP The Lovvers.
If anything, they’ve only redoubled their efforts and are coming harder than ever.
The group has strengthened their resolve and the sincerity with which they deliver is half the appeal.
Aids Wolf endeavor to live their lives by a series of principals, blurring the lines between art and lifestyle and directing their output.
Principal 3 states:
‘If you can’t convert ‘em, make ‘em run crying and holding their ears.
There is no shame in being a bummer.
To elicit a reaction - positive or negative - is a valueless proposition and a noble pursuit in its own right’.
After hearing this record I agree wholeheartedly.
Listen to : Tied-Up In Paper
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Review written by Luke Ume
http://lukeume.com/
