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Oulipo, or “Ouvroir de literature potentielle” (Workshop of Potential Literature) was a French movement of the 1960s whose members used constrained writing techniques. Mickaël Mottet uses the same techniques on his album, avoiding the letter E or the use of the E chord (his collaborators, Hiddentracks, have had to alter their name to fit the concept). It’s a French device but Mottet sings in a distinctively English way, sounding more like Mike Skinner and Robert Wyatt. Musically there’s jazz, hip hop and a strange inverted sort of avant-pop in the mix here, which develops the themes of the Teaser For:...