Noticed at the M for Montreal festival last November, or alongside La Sécurité, Stoylov, and Hippie Hourrah as a touring musician, Alix Fernz is a strange new rebel, emerging straight from the gloomy underground of the Bermuda Triangle. Nominated at the GAMIQ for the best punk album of the year in 2020 with his previous project Blood Skin Atopic, this self-taught singer and multi-instrumentalist is releasing his first solo album Bizou on 19 April via the Montreal label Mothland.
Directed by Annabelle Fournier, the video “Muselière” depicts Alix Fernz in an ambiguous psychic state, oscillating between wakefulness and sleep. With his hair dyed like a super-villain and marked by a deformity that has driven him mad, Alix embodies the malaise of his alter ego on the run by adopting the role of a clumsy, sadistic criminal clown who ends up in the hands of the forces of the law. Like a reflection of his unconscious, this master criminal evokes Alix’s fear and desire for a youthful rebellion against his own alienation, in the context of a coming of age in a cybernetic era. Like a dog barking into the headphones of its muzzle in the face of a well-trained collective mass, psychosocial disorders are perhaps just waiting to burst through the screen. AllO aLLO AllO aLLo…
Alix Fernz will be performing at the Sala Rossa on March 6, opening for the group Omni (Sub Pop).
