Sex-Sex (1970)

Lascivious, powerful, and raw garage blues rock is what the Canadian band Sex showcased during a brief career in which they barely had time to release two hard-hitting albums that are now highly sought after by fans of 1970s proto-hard rock. Formed in Quebec around 1969, this power trio consisted of bassist and singer Robert Trépanier, guitarist Yves Rousseau, and drummer Serge Gratton. Their first album, released in 1970, achieved some success in the Canadian underground scene thanks to a powerful rhythm section featuring a prodigious drummer, backed by great bass lines and incendiary guitar work. On this first album, the hard rock track "Scratch My Back", the jazz-rock song "Not Yet", the bluesy "Doctor", the Zeppelin-esque "A Hard to Raper Her" (the latter with a controversial title if released today), the folk-influenced hard rock "Come, Wake Up", the rhythmic hard blues "Night Symphony", and the psychedelic blues "Love Is A Game" stood out. A year later, they were joined by flautist and saxophonist Pierre Ouellette, who had already participated as a guest musician on this first album and with whom they would release the epitaph "The End of My Life" before their final disbandment in 1972.