Maxie

Finally listening to this album like two years late. In some sense it's a bit more consistent in style than God's Country, and it doesn't stray too far from the sound there, though it does end up sounding fatter, heavier, at least for me. And it works and I like it a lot, though sometimes I wish they could switch it up a bit more. I think Busch has actually improved as a vocalist; I find him more expressive and with greater range. I might prefer the second half, as they are more ... read more

I was pretty excited when the anglophile music nerd, AOTY/RYM crowd were raving about a Chilean album, given that I am Chilean. Certainly feels quite Chilean, in its references to Chilean literature (which I am not too educated on, unfortunately), as well feeling like it responds to the context of the 2019-2021 protests and the following failure of the constitutional plebiscite, both of which my family were heavily invested in, even as we lived abroad (or in the "estranjero.").

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A pure triumph of creativity and originality. It doesn't sound like a random mash-up of styles and ideas, but a developed, cohesive statement that is political and religious as it is musical. It's anticolonial music done with zeal and conviction.

Not a bad debut. Frankly, a lot of the songs sound like what the White Stripes should've sounded like. Properly raw, manic, and intense, coupled with psychedelic touches. At the end of the day though, blues-rock revivalism will only have so much appeal to me, and a lot of the melodies have some of those poppy indie cliches I'm not the biggest fan of. Perhaps most importantly, I know enough about the band to know that greater things are ahead of this, and that this isn't their ... read more