Lambs Anger is the third album by Mr. Oizo

Mr. Oizo

Mr. Oizo is the stage name of French electronic musician and film director Quentin Dupieux. His pseudonym is a corruption of the French , meaning "bird". He is currently signed to French electro record label, Ed Banger Records.-Beginning:...

. Although this album contains many of Mr. Oizo's trademark avant-garde elements, it also has many elements of Electro and French House

French house

French house is a catch-all term for house music by many French artists, a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and a form of Euro disco. The genre has also been referred to as "neu-disco" , "French touch", "filter house" and "tekfunk" over the years...

 not previously heard in his albums, most notably French

French people

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 electro

Electronic music

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-rapper

Rapping

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 Uffie

Uffie

Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...

's guest track, "Steroids". The first single off of the album is "Positif", which was released three days after the album's release and has gotten support from a wide variety of DJs, including Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer from Winnetka, California. His debut album, 1983, was released on Plug Research Records in 2006...

 and D.I.M. Unlike Analog Worms Attack

Analog Worms Attack

Analog Worms Attack is French techno musician Mr. Oizo's first full-length album, released in 1999. It was available on 10", 12", and CD. The album is mostly instrumental and minimal, taking cues from French House and early American Hip Hop...

and Moustache (Half a Scissor)

Moustache (Half a Scissor)

Moustache is Mr. Oizo's second album which was released in 2005 on CD. This was the infamous record that lead to Dupieux to leave the F. Com label and form an alliance with French label Ed Banger Records. The first and only single off of Moustache was "Stunt"...

, the album is composed of many dance tracks suited for a club environment.

The album cover pays homage to the 1928 surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou

Un chien andalou

Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months....

", where in place of Simone Mareuil

Simone Mareuil

Simone Mareuil was a French actress best known for appearing in the surrealist film Un chien andalou.-Biography:Born Marie Louise Simone Vacher in Périgueux, Dordogne, she appeared in a number of films, most notably director Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou...

 is a puppet named Flat Eric

Flat Eric

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, a mascot commonly associated with Mr. Oizo.

This record marked a change in Mr. Oizo's style.

This album has received mixed reviews, with Pitchfork Media

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 and PopMatters

PopMatters

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 especially disliking it.

The album was released in France on 17 November 2008 and in America on 26 January 2009.

Track listing

1. "Hun"
2. "Pourriture 2"
3. "Z"
4. "Cut Dick"
5. "Two Takes It" ft. Carmen Castro
6. "Rank"
7. "Bruce Willis Is Dead"
8. "Jo"
9. "Positif"
10. "Lambs Anger"
11. "Erreur Jean" ft. Error Smith
12. "Steroids" ft. Uffie
    Uffie
    Anna-Catherine Hartley , better known by her stage name Uffie , is a Paris-based underground electronic musician, rapper, fashion designer and socialite signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records. She has been described as a muse for French DJs, and is known for working with...
    
    
13. "Gay Dentists"
14. "Pourriture 7"
15. "W"
16. "Lars Von Sen"
17. "Blind Concerto"

External links

• Lambs Anger at Discogs