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Scratchy, contrasting and labyrinthine, songs from Alix Fernz (Montréal, QC) venture deep into post-punk’s scalene enclave, also flirting with hypnagogic pop, resulting in a lo-fi hybrid between synthwave and alternative rock, topped with catchy yet kooky melodies. Singing about bar life, psychosocial disorders, drug, addiction and fear, while drawing inspiration from high heels, lipstick, transvestism, fashion and weirdos, the singer-songwriter lays out along masqued syllabic beats the accounts of a coming-of-age in an era wherein likes and memes are all the rage.
While still only 17, Alix Fernz a.k.a. Alexandre « Spazz » Fournier conspired to form a rock & roll band: Blood Skin Atopic. Before blowing his twenty candles, the self-thought multi-instrumentalist self-produced and released two albums as well as an EP: Asocial Dolls, Spazz and Eczéma (Best Punk Album at GAMIQ 2020). Over 3 years, he shrieked punk-infused psychedelic tracks amidst Montréal’s underground circuit alongside fellow musicians Vincent Lemay (Efy Hecks), Olivier Cousineau (Comment Debord) and Samuel Gendron (Allô Fantôme). More recently, he sporadically joined outfits La Sécurité and Hippie Hourrah as a touring musician.
For things to come, Alix Fernz presents a first mostly-francophone full-length, slowly pulling away from English to sing in his mother tongue. Looking to synthesize envy, anguish, anger, revolt and violence into a resolutely positive and tonic serum, he concocts, from the confines of his living quarters, ever-shifting heteroclite pop music that is sometimes innocent, others ironic, but always beautifully abnormal. The Montrealer offers Bizou, a first opus under his new moniker, to be released on April 19th, 2024 via Mothland.
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“Il y a un peu de tout ça dans ce Bizou qui défie toute catégorisation. Mélange de punk, de chanson francophone, avec des ingrédients électroniques renvoyant au new wave. Un disque échevelé, spontané, explosif, qui frise parfois même la pop par la franchise de ses refrains.”
“Oozing sex and a distinctly devil-may-care, diva persona, Alix Fernz was a pleasure to watch Saturday night at Ausgang Plaza. Gritty, angular punk rock married beautifully with Fernz’s irreverent, borderline bratty vocals, which feel almost otherworldly once they’ve been filtered through his eclectic circuit board of synths and effects laid out on the table in front of them. ”
“Il faut reconnaitre que cette mouture est particulièrement rafraîchissante pour le paysage musical francophone actuel. L’univers et la présence de Fernz se démarquent avec une vraie singularité.”
““Rouge à lèvres” is an absolutely thrilling listen. It’s jagged and unsettled, with an underlying groove that still binds everything together in a way that feels like a ton of fun.”
“ [...] Alix Fernz, a post-punk meets weirdo new wave alt-pop menagerie that felt like watching The Residents, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, mixed with a bit of Cleaners From Venus.”
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