We said goodbye in February to the review of Westside Cowboy’s previous EP with the hope of soon receiving their debut album and being led back to that unique habitat where guitar pop, indie-rock, and folk go hand in hand. Since then, the hype has continued to grow, as advance singles were released and they … Read more
In this second installment, we continue to search for those artists who, due to talent, hype, context, or simply bad luck, seemed to have the future in their hands. And, as often happens with the future, it ended up taking another path.
Six years have passed since Punisher made her the great icon of contemporary melancholy. With all this baggage comes her third work, an ambitious and complex piece.
For a brief moment, it seemed they were going to be the next big band. But then, almost always without much fanfare, they stopped being the future.
Three years after their debut, the Chilean sextet Inundaremos returns with tanquemante. This second album represents an undeniable leap in quality and is already positioned as one of the year’s most significant releases. Inspired by the poetry of Juan Radrigán, the album emerges as a reaction to complacency, abandoning the comfort of homemade indie folk … Read more
Back in 2004, on the television schedule of Spain’s society of prosperity and abundance, a high school drama series appeared, following the adventures of some very handsome Californian students and their trials and tribulations in love, luxury, and other matters. The series in question was The O.C., and one of its protagonists, besides obviously carrying … Read more
The fourth album by the Melbourne artist marks a return to the country-rock sound of her first two records. An album so radiant and luminous it could almost burn — perhaps a logical outcome given that it was recorded in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, the songwriter’s new home after dissolving the Milk!Records label she … Read more
There is a starting point in the history of American Football that in itself puts us in absurd territory. A band with barely two years of life, which released a single album in 1999 with little impact and split up without making much noise, has ended up occupying a capital place in the imagination of several generations, as they have not only made their debut a classic, but have retroactively redefined what we understand by emo, indie, or even nostalgia. In that sense, American Football are more important as a perception than as a musical phenomenon; their relevance is beyond what they did, it is in how it has been listened to afterwards.
Ah, youth! On numerous occasions, the unstoppable pace of our surroundings pushes us to abandon that improvisational and hopeful spirit that gives us youthful momentum, only to surrender to the concept of “maturity.” Friko, the Illinois band, has made their young career a parallel to that dichotomy in which they bet unconditionally on that burst of bravery—at times naive, but always worth the risk.
Back in 1996, Britpop ruled the rock planet, grunge was fading out, and the late-century MTV invasion of pop-punk and nu-metal hadn’t yet arrived. Impassive and solid as a rock, there stood the “old reliable” of alternative rock. Placebo debuted with a canonical album, throwing the genre’s basic principles into a blender alongside introspective themes of drugs, sexuality, androgyny, and plenty of melancholy and infinite sadness.