Biography
TJ Felix is a self-taught noise-maker, agent of chaos, and sonic spell-caster from the Splatsin region of Secwepemculecw, they’ve haunted the margins of Vancouver’s underground punk and alternative scene for over a decade both with their solo project and through bands with names that look really good on shirts like “Bedwetters Anonymous,” “Lesser Pissers,”and most recently “The Heterosexuals” as well as about a trillion other bands showing varying levels of activity throughout the lower mainland
Their music is feedback cutting through fog with broken glass tenderness and gut-level truth. Think: grief with dollar store distortion pedals and drum machines played through the tinny speakers of ancient pawnshop computers… After surviving just about every symptom of an ongoing cultural genocide against Indigenous peoples that Canada could possibly throw at them, to say TJ's life hasn't been an easy one would be one hell of an understatement, but they are defiantly, amazingly alive in a world that would rather look away and despite their consistently frenetic rate of output, refuse to burn out or fade.
Here’s what some people have had to say about this twisted lil' freak's music:
“The vocals, which sound like the screeching of the mighty Furies themselves, is invigorating.” — Discorder Magazine
“A scrap heap of pulsing drums and unyielding riffs to create something broken, but functional. A feeling both foreign and familiar, like when it’s 3:29 am and you’re alone in a park wanting to create something meaningful…” — Weird Canada
“It sounds like the Residents and Devo having a panic attack after ingesting industrial quantities of LSD. It’s the antithesis of the sterile. it's about as far away as you can get from the mainstream. It exists in it's own world, a previously undiscovered land where The Residents are revered as musical gods, Mongoloid is the national anthem and Pere Ubu rules with an iron fist..” - The Devil has the Best Tuna
“Shrilly operatic digital punk with gleaming choruses amid the dissonance” - recent-songs.com
Their mixed media practice runs parallel: lovingly reclaimed and defaced business and road signs, Xeroxed confessionals, beadwork next to barbed wire—a constellation of trash and tenderness. Every piece—visual or sonic—is a living document of the chronically misunderstood. A love letter to the discarded. A blueprint for autonomy.
Felix’s performances and recording process are a necessary catharsis for them, both ritual and rebellion in a sick world racing towards it’s own oblivion.
Music is their last lifeline, it is a compulsion, a curse, and as long as they are still breathing you best believe they’re plugged into a DI somewhere screaming their bloody head off into a busted mic in some basement jam space
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