AIDS Wolf, Cities of Glass

Like many other completely annoying Canadian artists/bands (Nickelback, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion), with their lates release, Cities of Glass, Canadian noise-rock band AIDS Wolf is hardly even worth taking the time to write about. The only hope is that someone who is on the fence about the band will read this and decide not to listen to them — if you can even call “them” a band.

Perhaps, if this was their first release, and they were still trying to figure out their “sound,” one could at least be a tad more lenient. Unfortunately, the band has released a string of albums since their formation in 2005. Apparently anyone who records a bunch of noise with no songwriting skills whatsoever can have a career working with Skin Graft Records, the label crazy enough to actually sign these guys.

Even listening to the album with an open mind (perhaps there would be some hidden talent…somewhere?) is fruitless — there is not one song on this album worth listening to. It leaves you wishing for those precious moments of your life back and yearning to listen to someone from Canada with some kind of substance. Even Snow would bring me endless moments of joy after this. “A licky boom-boom down” makes more sense than anything from AIDS Wolf. And that’s quite depressing. If you happen to be one of the 21,968 friends on their Myspace, do yourselves a favor and delete them now.