We Are Wolves

When We Are Wolves arrived on the burgeoning early-aughts Montreal music scene, their product was a kind of chaos magique. The duet of art-school friends Alexander Ortiz and Vincent Levesque were mischief-makers, contrarians—the kind of magicians who yank the tablecloth off a perfectly-set table simply to smash the dishes on the floor.

Now, five years after the release of the EP La Main de Dieu, the duo of Alexander Ortiz and Vincent Levesque cast a spell for a sixth and final album. Many years in the making, this ultimate album confronts an era of social unrest, information overload, environmental cataclysm, and wartime malaise. Featuring guitar contributions from A Place To Bury Strangers’ Oliver Ackermann and Joseph Yarmush of SUUNS, We Are Wolves harness the sounds of synth rock, garage rock, cold wave, post punk, cumbia, tropical psych, and 90’s alt-rock, achieving a decades- and continents-straddling mixtape in which lyrical themes of confusion and alienation are tempered by the clarity of masterful pop craftsmanship.

This new album, presented by the band’s longtime label Simone Records, was produced by the band themselves, and recorded in several places: at Death By Audio NYC with noise-master Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers; with esteemed producer Odin Parada while exiled in Mexico; and by Vincent and Alex in their studio. It was mixed in Montreal by engineer Adrian Popovich (SUUNS, DFA1979, Duchess Says).