[3] This was later cited by his bandmate Max "Age of Danger" McCabe-Lokos as having fomented creative tensions during the recording of the band's Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2005 album Porcella, and ultimately to the band's breakup.
[5] His song "Self-Love" was featured on the soundtrack to the 2007 film This Beautiful City.
[9] He concentrated primarily on art through the early 2010s, and did not release an album of new material until 2017's Under Grape Leaves.
[11] Ethier paints portraits, figures and landscapes in oil, his work has been described as a grotesque realism and is influenced by neo-expressionism, primitive art, underground comic art and the works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and Odilon Redon.
In The New York Times Ken Johnson wrote: "André Ethier's funny, faux-naïve paintings resemble the works of a self-taught, semi-talented high school stoner steeped in heavy-metal music, fantasy novels and the visionary arts of the French Symbolists.