VICTIME, En conversation avec: REVIEW

VICTIME, En conversation avec (Mothland)

Just when I thought I’d heard the weirdest offerings from Montreal’s Mothland label, VICTIME, a noise rock/no wave band that has been dormant for half a decade, dropped their second album. I don’t really understand what’s going on in songs like “Un beau spectacle” or “M.A.,” but I know I want more, and I’m not sure why. This album has an alluring experimental quality to it, with wispy vocals à la Björk, frenetic guitar and bass lines, cut-up trip hop drumming and buzzing, out-of-sync synthesizers and pedals. A song like “Collage” is immediately unsettling, creating an atmosphere of paranoia and disarray. It’s in the same wheelhouse as Kee Avil, another Montreal songwriter whose weird work is reserved for a certain kind of music listener. I don’t feel good, but that’s purposeful. So if you want some of that, look no further than En conversation avec. 7/10  Trial Track “Collage”

For more on VICTIME, please visit their Bandcamp.

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