Premiere: Bizou, ‘Call of the Wild’
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We generally avoid using the word “supergroup,” but suffice to say the members of the new Los Angeles quintet Bizou didn’t just jump off the bus all rosy-cheeked in search of their first gig.
The band, fronted by singer Marisa Prietto (Wax Idols), features the talents of multi-instrumentalist/producer Josiah Mazzaschi (Light FM), Nicole Fiorentino (one-half of the duo the Cold and Lovely and former bassist for Smashing Pumpkins and Veruca Salt, among others), drummer Erin Tidwell (Tennis System, Jennie Vee) and guitarist Nicki Nevlin (Light FM).
Working at the Cave Studio, the band has an album’s worth of songs in the works (release plans are still fuzzy). This week they unveiled their first single “Call of the Wild,” a pulsing, synth-strafed goth-rocker. Or “cotton candy at a beach bonfire for goth kids,” as the band puts it. There’s a little bit of Garbage in their candy too, and maybe some Depeche Mode and Cure too. “The call of the wild is alive in me,” Prietto declares in the chorus, and from a crew with resumés this long, that is mighty good to hear.
||| Stream: “Call of the Wild”
||| Live: Bizou plays Aug. 31 at the Satellite along with Modern Time Machines, Empty Palace and High Priestess. Tickets.
[…] Mazzaschi would move to Los Angeles not long after the release of Light FM’s first album, restart the band with a retooled lineup and go on to amass a catalog of five albums and two EPs, the last coming in 2015. He also made a mark in the studio, working for fellow Chicagoan Dave Trumfio (credits including Built to Spill and the Jesus and Mary Chain), as well as going on to produce and/or engineer music by a host of L.A. bands over the years, ranging from mid-Aughts wunderkinds the Adored to Deap Vally to current upstarts such as Night Dreamer, Velvet Starlings and Livingmore. He’s also a member of synth-’n’-shoegaze quintet Bizou. […]