WIZAARD - PeCI - LISBON LUX

Montreal duo Wizaard, composed of Marie-Hélène Coutu and Jean-Nicolas Doss, offer a psychedelic pop-rock sound - sharp as winter but smooth as gravy. Over the years and evolving with English songs, the band has become a mainstay of the city's underground music scene, emerging today with a bilingual repertoire at the forefront of a new psychedelic movement. Wizaard has shared the stage with several bands, including Choses Sauvages, Men I Trust, Le Couleur and Elephant Stone, as well as the Americans Twin Peaks. The band also produced a remix for the band Spaceface (a Flaming Lips side project), which was a great success, with over 1 million streams on Spotify.

After releasing two albums, 'Starfish Buffet' (2016) and then 'Supernatural Mystics' (2019) under different line-ups, the duo present their first album with a French-speaking majority in October 2024. A delicious cocktail of madness, eclecticism and groove.

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Wizaard’s music is a synesthetic experience: the band, made up of Marie-Hélène Coutu and Jean-Nicolas Doss, creates songs that evoke the vivid colors of the RGB palette. The saturation of their music reflects the overwhelming excitement of our digital age. It's quirky, colorful, and fun. Their lyrics are in tune with this offering: hyperconnected yet playful, "sharp like winter but smooth as gravy." After a few years of absence, the duo is coming back to life and preparing to release their first mostly French album: PECI (an acronym for “Projet d’Éternel Café Internet”), set to be released on October 18 under Lisbon Lux Records.

With a variable lineup centered around Marie-Hélène and Jean-Nicolas, Wizaard released their album Starfish Buffet in 2016, followed by the Supernatural Mystics EP in 2019 – two groovy and psychedelic works that made their mark on the Montreal indie scene. They have shared the stage with Choses Sauvages, Men I Trust, Paul Jacobs, Elephant Stone, and the American rockers Twin Peaks. The group also works as a production unit, crafting remixes for the deluxe version of Radiant Baby’s Pantomime album, as well as for Spaceface (a Flaming Lips side project), which garnered over 1 million streams on Spotify. Jean-Nicolas also works as a producer, a signature evident in Wizaard’s other albums and the aforementioned Pantomime by Radiant Baby.

If several years have passed since their last sign of activity, it’s because life happens, and Marie-Hélène and Jean-Nicolas took the time they needed to work on PECI, with creative input and collaboration from former member and keyboardist Alex Nadeau-Farley.

Wizaard is now officially back as a duo. Their indie-dance sound blends with synthetic psychedelia, hybridizing a live band and electronic production – like a stream of internet searches trying to express itself. As a duo, in French, and collaborating with friends and fellow artists: PECI includes contributions from Alexandre Larin (Larynx) and Félix Mongeon (Radiant Baby) to the duo’s first French lyrics.

PECI was primarily recorded in the duo’s home studio. You can hear groovy basslines and Marie-Hélène’s new French lead vocals, Jean-Nicolas’s fuzzy, auto-wah guitar riffs and tones, and the vintage synth touch of collaborator Alex Nadeau-Farley. On the cover, you’ll notice Marie-Hélène’s painted artwork (as she does for all the singles). Most of all, you can feel the fun the group had creating this album – and the anticipation of sharing it live on stage.