AIDS Wolf
Ma Vie Banale Avant-Garde

THE REVIEW

You are living a quiet life, everything is going just right. You are looking for some little daily epiphany, such as the new trendy noise-pop group of Slumberland Records or the new lookalike of My Bloody Valentine, who, as usual, has thrown in a massive dose of shoegaze to stand out: you would never expect such an event.

In a rather comical way, you stagger, go crazy, and fall to the ground. AIDS Wolf would even be willing to share this sudden pain with you, were they not the very cause. This quartet from Montreal, the group in question, has loved staging horror without equal for years. Even if just for a moment, you believe that maybe free-noise never existed, and with The Ring-like moves, they take you out. After their "March To The Sea" from twenty-ten, where they laconically scarred Throbbing Gristle, you consider yourself lucky because a lot of water will pass under the bridges before seeing them again, and in less than a year, they release a new record, "Ma Vie Banale Avant-Garde", composed of twenty-four tracks that this time have no intention of behaving in a laconic manner.

"Ma Vie Banale Avant-Garde" is the shining example of how one can render schematic and technical a genre born from no-wave that with AIDS Wolf is showing what a broad vision it offers. The Canadians finally manage to reach the peak of a career from which, from now on, they will most likely yield further works of lower caliber: there is less blues and Beefheart, but in compensation, the influences received from noise groups like Dead C and grindcore like Napalm Death further sharpen the structures of increasingly less concealed tracks, if possible, from the decadent violence of a group whose sole purpose is to daze you. The fundamental factor, however, remains the vocal part of Chloe "The Ring" Lum, a woman who started making music because she was curious to hear how Satomi Matsuzaki sings during a treatment in the electric chair.

The rest is just time wasted searching for strong words, which in front of AIDS Wolf will sound sweet anyway.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 IS COMICAL.

AIDS WOLF IS HORROR.

MA VIE BANALE AVANT-GARDE IS THEIR MASTERPIECE