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.
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.
What La Estrategia del Caracol and Cámara Chilena de la Destrucción have created isn’t the typical contractual alliance where two bands gather discards to fill a format. El Hambre y las Ganas de Comer feels like a cohesive and fierce studio album, an eight-track pitched battle where both sides feed on the same rage to deliver one of the most well-rounded works of the Latin American independent scene so far this year.
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