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miércoles, 26 de octubre de 2016

ZELIG - "Técnicas de defensa pasiva" (2016)

ZELIG es una banda de Barcelona gestada a mediados del 2011 y formada por los hermanos Sergio (batería) y Javier Trenado (voz y bajo), junto a Isidoro Velasco (guitarra). Los dos primeros llevan tocando juntos desde el 1998 formando parte desde entonces de diversos proyectos como Grey o Silversister.

Técnicas de defensa pasiva (2016) es su cuarta referencia hasta la fecha. Un mini Lp con siete temas, grabado y mezclado en Chester Music Lab por Víc Bou y masterizado por Marco Morgione Micromaltese.

Un trabajo repleto de noise-pop, shoegaze y power-pop, asociado a un humeante saborcillo americano que flota en el ambiente. Para mi tiene una gran virtud: cada escucha alimenta la duda de cual corte te deleita más. Esa especie de conflicto no hace más que confirmar que estamos ante un álbum espléndido, con un power trío que suena sólido y compacto, un mecanismo bien engrasado al servicio de nuestros afortunados oídos.



"En el ojo del huracán" (clip al final del post) abre el disco con un shoegaze melódico que va derivando hacia la épica a medida que se acerca su ocaso. Continuamos con el corte que da título al trabajo y que nos adentra en la vertiente más power-pop de la banda, junto a ese rezume yankee del que hablaba anteriormente. Con "Faltas y delitos", mi favorita en el momento presente, seguimos intensos, esta vez a través de un noise-pop majestuoso con unas guitarras que literalmente se salen. 

Entramos en terrenos más ligeros con los deliciosos medios tiempos "Ejemplos de repetición" y "Nueva aventura". El primero bajo el semblante de un fantástico pseudo-homenaje a Yo la tengo, una formación que se nota les encanta. El segundo muy pop, quizás la sorpresa en ese sentido del conjunto, transpirando incluso sonidos beat 60's.

Para el dueto final ZELIG nos reserva los momentos más enérgicos, llenos de distorsión al cuadrado con "Tan lejos" y sobre todo con el cierre "En mala hora". Tremenda, majestuosa, con esa vehemente proclama "...díme la verdad o te arrepentirás", acompañando un explosivo final de trabajo.

jueves, 27 de febrero de 2014

Made In America - POSSE, "Soft Opening" (2014)

Seattle's Posse are Sacha Maxim, Paul Wittmann-Todd, & Jon Salzman. The trio was born out of the perpetual Seattle music scene in 2010 and two years later self-released their eight track debut album Posse. Posse's sound comes from an obvious passion for 90's indie-rock with tinges of  Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth shaded throughout. Like those two aforementioned bands, Posse has a handle on the ability to take a seemingly sparse sound and fill the room and your head with it.

Posse's new album Soft Opening is scheduled for a March 4th release on Beating A Dead Horse Records. In true do-it-yourself fashion, the entirety of the album was played and recorded in the basement of Sacha Maxim's home.

jueves, 25 de julio de 2013

Made In America - Speedy Ortiz, "Major Arcana" (2013)

In 2012 singer/guitarist Sadie Dupuis started writing songs under the name Speedy Ortiz after the breakup of her band Quilty. She quickly recruited Matt Robidoux (guitar), Mike Falcone (drums) and Darl Ferm (bass) to round out a band and released the promising five-track Sports EP on Exploding In Sound Records

The sound of the Massachusetts based band is heavily steeped in 90s sludgy lo-fi alternative. Dupuis crafts songs like Pavement's Stephen Malkmus, part poetry, part angular journey that gets you from point A to point B in the most unexpected ways but still manages to keep you fastened in the whole way. Dupuis once fronted an all-female Pavement cover band called Babement.



2013 brought the release of their official debut Major Arcana on D.C. based Carpark Records. Dupuis proves that she can wax poetic with the best of them but with the help of producer Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur, Jr., Chelsea Light Moving) the songs sport a more mature sound that harkens the heydays of Sonic Youth and Sebadoh. Speedy Ortiz has been showing up on many "best new music" lists around the interwebs this year and rightly so. So dig out your best holy blue jeans and flannel shirt and enjoy.






viernes, 12 de julio de 2013

Made In America - Potty Mouth, "Hell Bent" (2013)

Bands like Northhampton, Massachusettes alt-rockers Potty Mouth make me happy. They make me happy because they sound so damn good and they sound so good because they've been able to accomplish what's always been so hard to do in music. That's allowing their influences to gently affect their music but not overwhelm it, letting it feel familiar but original. They also rock.

Potty Mouth are made up of Abby Weems, Ally Einbinder, Phoebe Harris, and Victoria Mandanas. The quartet formed in 2011 and quickly released their Sun Damaged EP the following year which emanated the best parts of 90's alternative from Bikini Kill to Sebadoh and Sonic Youth, that's driving rhythms and melodic choruses. Later that year they released the first single and video for the song "Damages" from what would become their debut album, Hell Bent.


2013 has them gearing up to release their debut Hell Bent on Marshall Teller Records (UK) and Old Flame Records (US). The release date is set for September 17th. If the single "The Spins" is any representation of what's on Hell Bent then you'd be doing yourself a favor to pre-order the album right now.