DO WHAT SETS YOUR HEART FREE

Black Jacks is a small Montreal scuzz bar attached to a St. Henri strip club with a blown sound system, terrible draft beer, and a reputation for sometimes getting a little stabby. I was playing records there a few months ago and at one point, in cinematic fashion, the lights dimmed around every person but one: a drugged out, drooling cross-eyed redhead with a test pressing in his hands. He was one of the head honchos for Montreal’s Psychic Handshake Records and the record was Dead Wife‘s new “D.W.S.Y.H.F/TXT ME/ GENTLEMEN RAPIST” 7″. He whipped the record at me like a Frisbee, which I failed to catch, but I picked it up and put it onto the turntable and it was a hit. I was requested to play it by three separate people that night. Or at least one guy with two very good disguises. Now a few months later, it’s finally been released.

Dead Wife are three Italian women and a gay native guy that dress like cartoon teenagers and play wild no-wave-y punk about teenager things. I just got a real copy of their record and it comes with this crazy fold-out poster that looks like those old Reagan Youth records but more TMZ-themed instead of KKK. It’s also got a bunch of fake newspapers with headlines like, “Teen wanted to make friends–but lacked social skills” instead of some goofy political business. Anyway, as far as Montreal punk singles go, this might already be a classic.

“D.W.S.Y.H.F”
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