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Approved: Mr Oizo – Bear Biscuit
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 16 October 2014
You probably think you’ve got Mr Oizo pegged. Whether you only know him from ‘Flat Beat’, or you’ve kept at least a cursory glance on his career since that yellow puppet invaded our lives, you’re going to have a pretty firm view. But stop now. Stop and try to forget who Mr Oizo is to you.
He’s now signed to Brainfeeder and will release his first album for three years on 17 Nov. Called ‘The Church’, the first track from that album, ‘Machyne’, hit the internet at the tail end of last month. It contains Oizo-esque elements but ramps them all up to harder (you might say more annoying) levels.
But this was just a stepping stone on the way to ‘Bear Biscuit’, a track that manages to be aggressively whimsical. Or whimsically aggressive. Maybe just aggressive. It’s loud, abrasive and prone to making sharp turns when you really hadn’t asked it to.
It is not, I think it’s fair to say, anything like what you’d have previously described to someone asking what Mr Oizo sounds like. But, blimey, I hope there are more like it.
