O’o release their new project, More Wishes, Less Bones today, a luminous yet dusky collection that deepens the singular voice they’ve been crafting over the past few years. Composed of five original tracks and two reimagined French classics, the album feels like a natural continuation of their previous work while opening a more melodic and subtly danceable chapter.
Named after the extinct Hawaiian bird known for its haunting song, O’o embody the same sense of fragility and resonance. The duo, Victoria Suter and Mathieu Daubigné, childhood friends turned artistic partners, began shaping their identity in Barcelona, where their self-produced EP Spells first caught attention with support from Primavera Sound before being reissued by InFiné in 2023. Since then, they have steadily built a reputation for music that thrives on contrasts: sophistication and playfulness, clarity and haze, intimacy and expansiveness.
Their debut album, Touche, released in 2022, introduced this balance through a blend of experimental pop, electronica, and chanson, sung in both French and English. The follow-up, Songs of Wishes and Bones (2024), was created in the rural calm of Mézin, southwest France, where the duo found an environment that seeped into their sound, poetic and introspective.
More Wishes, Less Bones extends this atmosphere while adding new textures. Victoria’s voice, expressive and luminous, stands at the centre, weaving intimacy with a quiet humour, while Mathieu’s radiant production outlines subtle silhouettes in the background. The result is music that invites close listening while remaining effortlessly open.
Lichen evokes a poetic dialogue between the vegetal and the human, while Maybe captures the uncertainty of love on the verge of commitment. With La Mésange (Françoise Hardy Cover) and Qui me délivrera? (Nicole Louvier Cover), O’o revisit the French songbook, uncovering melodies and meanings that still feel daring today. Closing track Reveries merges folk-tinged motifs with playful percussion, a rare brightness in their catalogue that lingers like a memory half-dreamed.
Throughout, the duo show why they deserve particular attention within the contemporary French scene. More Wishes, Less Bones is not just a continuation of their path but a reminder of their ability to make fragility resonate with force, proof that O’o have carved out a space entirely their own, somewhere between light and echoes.