Corpusse Delusions

Finally the second release on the Unknown Province sublabel of Feeding Tube records and it's a doozy: the self-released 1988 lp “Delusions” by Corpusse. Well known to deep-underground scenes in Canada, few know about the Canadian “King of Rock N Roll” elsewhere. Corpusse was still a teenager in the Park-Ex neighborhood of Montreal when Delusions was released. The photo on the back tells you all you need to know featuring the young man standing on the city’s shittiest back-alley snowbank. Nothing has really ever come close to the sheer cathartic energy - some might say insanity - of Corpusse’s lyrics, toeing the line between Shakespearean monologue and GG Allin rant. Beneath him rumbles a Korg Poly-6 (“best fucking synth ever” he says) and a Welson organ. Somebody would probably call it Dungeon Synth now but this was 1988. The decrepit, burned out city being delusionally painted by a bald and bearded artist on the cover is certainly the location in which Corpusse’s gothic dramas are set. Most surely a metaphor for Montreal in 1988 - a veritable gotham by all accounts. Includes liner notes by Corpusse himself, describing the scene vividly. I’ve always felt Delusions formed a holy-trinity of self-released Montreal lps of the 1980s alongside Carlyle Williams’ “Gotta Go For It” and the American Devices “Decensortized” lps. All three possess brain-fried, maverick visions of rock n roll which sometimes border on psychosis. -Alex Moskos, Montreal Jan 2026