Country : Canada (Quebec) Label : Mothland Genres and styles : Art Punk / Post-Punk / Psych-Rock Year : 2020

A Hopeless Noise

· by Patrick Baillargeon

In this second coming of Red Mass, Roy Vucino and his companion Hannah Lewis lead us on a descent into hell, tinged with lust, drugs, and murder. The duo that leads the destiny of the variable-geometry band have surrounded themselves with many friends to carry out this new adventure, released a few months ago, but now available on vinyl on the Montreal label Mothland. We’re talking about more than 30 collaborators – not the least of them including King Khan, Mike Watt, MacDemarco, Evan Dando, Rick Froberg, Hugo Mudie, John Kastner and even a children’s choir. On A Hopeless Noise, we witness the fall of Diamond Girl, following her in her debauchery and excesses, ever deeper into the abyss of vice. Despite this semblance of a narrative framework, A Hopeless Noise is not a concept album and, thank God, even less a rock opera. It’s an album written by someone who’s come a long way, who’s been close to death a few times and who knows how to put the ups and downs (especially) of a junkie into words and music. All these guests give the album a colour of its own, which results in a certain disparity (in terms of sound and level of production in particular), fortunately never too striking. So we stay in what Roy Vucino, veteran of the Montreal garage-rock scene, knows how to do best, with incarnations sometimes free jazz, disco-punk or psychedelic. A Hopeless Noise is a dense and tortured work, a rather original proposition in the often predictable punk/garage register. Red Mass is astonish and demolish.

Latest 360 Content

Nuits d’Afrique | La Chiva Gantiva Launches the Festival with a Bang

Nuits d’Afrique | La Chiva Gantiva Launches the Festival with a Bang

Festival de Lanaudière | Live tour de force by Christian Tetzlaff: the JS Bach Complete Sonatas and Partitas

Festival de Lanaudière | Live tour de force by Christian Tetzlaff: the JS Bach Complete Sonatas and Partitas

Sextile – yes, please.

Sextile – yes, please.

Nuits d’Afrique | KillaBeatMaker, Afro Columbian Electronic Groove

Nuits d’Afrique | KillaBeatMaker, Afro Columbian Electronic Groove

Puffer – Street Hassle

Puffer – Street Hassle

Nuits d’Afrique 2025: ALL About The Program

Nuits d’Afrique 2025: ALL About The Program

Festival de Lanaudière | Collectif9 : contemporary music through groove and folk

Festival de Lanaudière | Collectif9 : contemporary music through groove and folk

Sam Dickinson – Gemini Duets

Sam Dickinson – Gemini Duets

Monkey House – Crashbox

Monkey House – Crashbox

Mark Molnar – EXO

Mark Molnar – EXO

Nuits d’Afrique | SARĀB, Syrian-Lebanese Songs Sizzled With Metal and Jazz-Rock

Nuits d’Afrique | SARĀB, Syrian-Lebanese Songs Sizzled With Metal and Jazz-Rock

Tyr Jami – Morphic Subduction

Tyr Jami – Morphic Subduction

Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin, Markku Ounaskari – Arcanum

Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin, Markku Ounaskari – Arcanum

Steve Holt Jazz Impact Quintet – Impact

Steve Holt Jazz Impact Quintet – Impact

Isabelle Faust/Les Siècles; François-Xavier Roth – Ligeti : Concertos

Isabelle Faust/Les Siècles; François-Xavier Roth – Ligeti : Concertos

Blackwater Holylight – If You Only Knew

Blackwater Holylight – If You Only Knew

M83 – A Necessary Escape (Dakar Chronicles Original Soundtrack)

M83 – A Necessary Escape (Dakar Chronicles Original Soundtrack)

Festival de Lanaudière | The Coronation of Poppea, the triumph of Octavia and the mastery of Alarcon

Festival de Lanaudière | The Coronation of Poppea, the triumph of Octavia and the mastery of Alarcon

FIJM | Sun Ra Arkestra Still in the Physical World But…

FIJM | Sun Ra Arkestra Still in the Physical World But…

FIJM | Esperanza Spalding Between Two Chairs on the Place des Festivals

FIJM | Esperanza Spalding Between Two Chairs on the Place des Festivals

FIJM | Saxophonist and vocalist Camille Thurman, New Montreal Hidden Treasure

FIJM | Saxophonist and vocalist Camille Thurman, New Montreal Hidden Treasure

Festival de Lanaudière | Bruckner and Payare: Cathedral builders

Festival de Lanaudière | Bruckner and Payare: Cathedral builders

Festival de Lanaudière | Magistral Opening

Festival de Lanaudière | Magistral Opening

Subscribe to our newsletter