biographical info
AIDS Wolf was birthed into the heady days of Montreal’s millennial music scene. Yannick Desranleau (aka Hiroshima Thunder) and Chloe Lum began the band as a 4 piece in 2003. Unlike most of the local units finding fame out in the world beyond Quebec, AIDS Wolf pushed an abrasive, unforgiving and rather unwieldy sound around North America in a battered van. Alexander Moskos (aka the Kozz) joined in 2008. Desranleau, Lum, and Moskos ditched the more typical rock quartet format to work in a novel trio format (drums, guitar through two amps and voice) augmented with (erstwhile forsaken) guitar effects and voice synthesis.
AIDS Wolf has formalized its sound over its years into a tight construction relying on intentional dissonance, polyrhythms and disjunctive compositional forms. The band takes its cues from “classic” New York No Wave, free jazz, vegan cooking, 70’s proto-punk, Beefheartian modes, Ville-Marie school of white elephant architecture, Literature, www.crwflags.com , post-war continental modern composition and their unrivaled network of friends and acqquaintances the world over.
The band signed early on to the legendary American noise rock label Skin Graft Records who co-released their debut with Brooklyn’s Lovepump United. In addition to their three full-lengths, The Lovvers Lp, Cities of Glass and March to the Sea they have released countless collaborative and split lps, seven inches and cassettes.
AIDS Wolf has been covered in media like Pitchfork, The New Yorker and Billboard Magazine, toured Isreal, The UK, continental Europe, Canada and the United States. When not playing in AIDS Wolf its membership are always working on other artistic endeavors (Lum and Desranleau’s art practice Seripop and duo Hamborghinni, Moskos’ Drainolith one man show ect) and are generally just getting it done.
AIDS Wolf’s newest, a double lp titled “Ma Vie Banale Avant-Garde” will be released by Lovepump United of Brooklyn, NY on Oct 4th.