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.
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).
Now, 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, released April 19th, 2024 via Mothland.