About a month ago, We Are Wolves, the Montreal-based project of Alexander Ortiz and Vincent Levesque, exploded back onto the scene with their first release of new music since 2019 with their single, “Transition”. Today, the hard-to-categorize musical contrarians are back to share their new single, “Súper Normal”, a tune that falls square into their finely crafted “dystopian dance-rock” sound. “Súper Normal” is immediately captivating and catchy, starting slow with drums until the beat comes in with an earworm of a melody.

How does a band historically guided by contrarian impulses operate in the new, dizzyingly atomized global music scene? Somehow, the duo has created order out of chaos by fashioning some of the sharpest and most concise songs in their catalog, counterbalanced with their noisiest and most “out there” tracks. Featuring guitar contributions from A Place To Bury Strangers/Death By Audio’s 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).