BIZOU
Los Angeles, California, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2018 | SELF
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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 Mina 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. - Buzzbands LA
Nicole Fiorentino is known for her powerful playing with Smashing Pumpkins, The Cold and Lovely, Veruca Salt, and many others. Now the skilled low ender is unleashing her latest project, Bizou, a Los Angeles outfit that blends goth and shades of alternative with pop familiarities.
Or as the band describes it: Former members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Light FM, Wax Idols and Tennis System serve up cotton candy at a beach bonfire for Goth kids. - Bass Player
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Still working on that hot first release.
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BIZOU is the sum of it's parts: driving post-punk bass + wall of sheeny shoegaze guitars
+ shifting scales of synths + the propulsive rhythms of darkwave -- all fused together
with dreamy vocals ala' Curve, Cranes, Garbage or PJ Harvey... (And this should come
as no surprise, given the pedigree of the band -- comprised of members of The
Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, Tennis System, Wax Idols, Jennie Vee, and Light
FM.)
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