In 2012 Chloë Lum, Yannick Desranleau and Alex Moskos played their last shows together as AIDS Wolf. They took their gear down to La Brique studios in Montréal and with engineer Sébastien Fournier recorded their final four tracks together as AIDS Wolf.

Fast forward 14 years and those tracks are finally seeing the light of day as Harsh Human Style, released this Friday on SKiN GRAFT Records.

Why the long wait? Well, conveniently Yannick, Alex and Chloë all join me to discuss just that. Well, not just that. We go through various history of the band, all the way back to the start. Their releases, the reception to their name, touring trials and tribulations in North America, their influences, contemporaries and friends past and present.

The only letdown to proceedings was my interface crapping the bed just before the interview started. But you can’t have everything, can you?

Huge thanks to Alex, Chloë and Yannick for their time and to Mark Fischer once again for setting me up to talk with such cool people.

Pre-order Harsh Human Style on CD or digitally from bandcamp — and check out their back catalogue there while you’re at it.

Check out Alex’s Drainolith project on bandcamp.

Check out Chloë and Yannick’s The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum on bandcamp.

SKiN GRAFT Records on bandcamp.

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