Wasted Widow Les Douches Romaines (Hobo Cult) Montreal, QC ::web/sounds::

Rivaling Fixture Records as best-designed multi-format boutique label in Canada, Hobo Cult really delivered with a small package of incredibly wyld and strange music; Wasted Widow being the first of many reviews to come. Caught in the imaginative triangulation of punk, noise-psych, and experimentalism, Les Douches Romaines captures a unique moment in uncategorized music. No-gaze? Adjective-wave? Who cares? Classification will certainly fail when filing away Wasted Widow’s wailing distorted guitar, granular noise, vocals delayed beyond calculation, and incongruent notions of song structure. It’s droney and psychedelic and noisey and weird and awesome! I had to have a time-out in my apartment and re-calibrate my association with commonly held notions of “genre” and “taste.” Incredible (no hyperbole). And, yes, those drums are looped in Skyscrape My Shapes. Wasted, indeed!

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Wasted Widow – Skyscrape My Shapes

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Wasted Widow – Heroin Quest (w/ Clef Guitarson)

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Wasted Widow – Love Child (w/ Clef Guitarson)

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Wasted Widow – Hospital Memorium (exit)