SALA & THE STRANGE SOUNDS - #Fotomatic (2015)

SALA & THE STRANGE SOUNDS es una banda nacida en el 2009 en Londres con componentes de varias nacionalidades y grandes conexiones musicales con España, de echo residen aquí actualmente donde tienen legiones de fans forjados después de innumerables conciertos sobretodo en la capital. Y es que son sobretodo carne de directo y así lo demuestran a través de su segundo LP editado, el contestatario y vigoroso #Fotomatic (2015), que desde el minuto cero provoca que no dejes de brincar mientras lo vas devorando.

Ecos añejos de The Clash ("Fotomatic" o "I Get Fucked"); Ramones ("Take It"); Stray Cats ("This Old Town"); The Kinks ("Shout")... SALA & THE STRANGE SOUNDS no solo compilan flashes de lo mejor de la historia del rock&roll más enérgico, sino que también muestran su cara más dócil como en "What Is It To Be Loved", "Still On My Mind" o la acústica "Kali Ali". 

Rebosan descaro y eso hace por ejemplo que se atrevan incluso a versionar al legendario "Yes Sir I Can Boogie" de las Baccara junto a Mayte Mateos (su cantante original), una auténtica delicia que cierra un disco bárbaro.

NOVEDADES CARMINHA - Juventud Infinita (2014)

"O follamos todos o me tiro al río", dice la letra de "Juventud Infinita" (clip a final de post), canción que da título al nuevo álbum de los gallegos Novedades Carminha. Muchos seguro que estamos de acuerdo con la proclama que inicia el álbum; si a esto unimos 10 pelotazos en forma de cortes llenos de actitud irreverente, letras lapidarias y una mezcla estilística entre garage-punk, rock & roll y pop 60's... bueno, bueno, la diversión está asegurada. El tercer disco de la banda ha sido producido por Ángel Kaplan y masterizado por Noel Summerville (The White Stripes, Black Lips, My Bloody Valentine...).

Made In America - Allah-Las

So far it's been a wet, sloppy, and unseasonably cool spring, even by southern standards, but I'm already sweating just thinking of that one-two punch coming here inthe southeast where Mother Nature leads off with face numbing heat only to catch you off balance with her muggy blanket of humidity. It sounds more like evil super powers than it does climate but either way you're getting a beat down.

Even with that I've been on a big 60's surfy garage-rock kick lately and what better way to get that itch scratched that to stick with the West Coast.

Los Angeles' the Allah-Las have a throwback sound directly descending from early Kinks and The Animals and if it were possible to get any lower-fi than 60's garage rock then these guys have managed to do so. The quartet formed in 2008, three of the four members met while working at renowened music shop Amoeba Records in Los Angeles. They relesed three singles over the next four years leading up to their full lenght debut Alla-Las which came out last year on the Innovative Leisure label with initial pressing selling out quickly.

Never straying far from mid-tempo, Allah-Las manages to soothe you over with a dozen seductively laid back tunes that beg to be listened to through a pair of vintage headphones while staring through your bedroom window deep into that afternoon sepia glow. The album plays evenly beginning to end and is one of those that really should be listend to that way. It doesn't belong on your iPod on shuffle-play; this one was made for vinyl.

The Allah-Las are currently touring through Europe and will be playing the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in May.

Allah-Las: Tell Me (What's On Your Mind)