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New Audio: Montréal’s Wizaard Returns with Languid and Trippy “OMG (son style me désole)”
Montréal-based psych pop outfit Wizaard — currently, Marie Hèléne Coutu and Jean-Nicholas Doss — quickly became mainstays of the French Canadian city’s psych, Anglophone and bilingual music scenes with the release of their first two albums, 2016’s Starfish Buffet and 2019’s Supernatural Mystics while going through a series of lineup changes.
The Montréal-based outfit supported both of those albums with shows and tours with Choses Sauvages, Men I Trust, JOVM mainstays Le Couleur and Elephant Stone, and American outfit Twin Peaks. Adding to a growing profile, the trio’s remix of Spaceface‘s “Timeshare” has amassed over one-million Spotify streams.
The trio’s third album will be released by Lisbon Lux Records, and the album will be the first album of material written and sung primarily in French. The album reportedly will be “a delicious cocktail of madness, eclecticism and groove,” the band explains.
Earlier this year, I wrote about “DVD vidéo,” a song anchored around a languid and lysergic groove that brings Tame Impala, L’imperatrice and Pavo Pavo to mind, paired with dreamily coquettish vocals and boom bap-like beats, The result is a song that evokes a remarkably pleasant psilocybin-induced trip.
The album’s latest single “OMG (son style me désole),” translates into English as “OMG (I’m sorry about his style),” and is anchored around twinkling synth arpeggios, a wobbling bass line and dusty gated reverberated beats and incredibly catchy hooks serving as a lush and dreamy bed for coquettish and ethereal vocals. The result is a song that reminds me a bit of a hook-driven synthesis of JOVM mainstays MUNYA, Kainalu, and Pavo Pavo
Montréal-based psych pop outfit Wizaard — currently, Marie Hèléne Coutu and Jean-Nicholas Doss — are a mainstay of their city’s psychedelic, Anglophone and bilingual music scenes with the release of their first two albums, 2016’s Starfish Buffet and 2019’s Supernatural Mystics, while going through a series of lineup changes. The Montréal-based outfit supported both of those albums sharing stages with Choses Sauvages, Men I Trust, Le Couleur, JOVM mainstays Elephant Stone and American outfit Twin Peaks. Adding to a growing profile, the Montréal act’s remix of Spaceface‘s “Timeshare” has amassed over one-million Spotify streams.
The duo’s forthcoming third album will be released by Lisbon Lux Records, and the album will be the first album of material written and sung primarily in French. The album reportedly be “a delicious cocktail of madness, eclecticism and groove,” the band explains.
The forthcoming album’s latest single “DVD vidéo” is anchored around a languid yet lysergic groove that recalls Tame Impala, L’imperatrice and Pavo Pavo paired with dreamily coquettish vocals and boom bap-like beats. To me “DVD vidéo” evokes a remarkably pleasant psilocybin-induced trip.
The duo’s forthcoming third album will be released by Lisbon Lux Records, and the album will be the first album of material written and sung primarily in French. The album reportedly be “a delicious cocktail of madness, eclecticism and groove,” the band explains.
The forthcoming album’s latest single “DVD vidéo” is anchored around a languid yet lysergic groove that recalls Tame Impala, L’imperatrice and Pavo Pavo paired with dreamily coquettish vocals and boom bap-like beats. To me “DVD vidéo” evokes a remarkably pleasant psilocybin-induced trip.