Les Sueques "Educacio Fisica" (p)El Genio Equivocado Buy/Listen
Maronda "Vibraciones" (p)self-released Buy/Listen
Isasa "Las Cosas" (p)La Castanya Buy/Listen
Nothing Places "Tidal Love" (p)Foehn Buy/Listen
The Birkins "Souvenirs" (p)El Genio Equivocado Buy/Listen
MOR "The Magic Boooooom!!!" (p)Familia Palmer/Discos Del Rollo Listen
Morenas "Tres" (p)Discos Humeantes Buy/Listen
- They're from Barcelona, and they got vibe. Meet Les Sueques, a post-punk quartet with Dadaist attitude!
- La Habitacion Roja's "Fue Electrico" is the great album by all means. "Vibraciones", which was created much in the vein of "Fue Electrico", is great too. And it's no surprise that Marc Greenwood who plays bass in LHR is also the co-leader of Maronda.
- The Spanish indie rock's most renowned woman has added another remarkable album to her back catalogue. Nuff said.
- Without applying any major changes to their core sound Tachenko have recorded the albumful of their tightest and the most consistent songs to date.
- The completely wordless and extremely beautiful album from the former A Room With A View guitar player.
- The moody dreamy psychedelic band Nothing Places is alter ego of the constant Ivan Ferreiro collaborator Emilio Saiz here backed by such the relevant personas as Marti Perarnau (Mucho) and Ricky Falkner (you know, he's a man of many talents). If you think these names are setting the coordinates or frames for what you could expect as the final result - that's a complete mistake. There's something you couldn't have expected at all.
- One of the most prominent Canarian bands has returned with the new album. 10 songs with the lyrics in English and French (as usual) and the great potential of growing up on you. One more El Genio Equivocado's album in my list - this label is responsible for the large part of this year's great music, I swear.
- The space rock from Cadiz (that seems to be this year's most musically burgeoning town). Spearheaded by Juan Antonio Mateos (Homeless, Grabaciones Sumergidas recording studio), the band MOR delivers the multy-layered and breezy psychedelia that for these days is probably the most cutting-edge genre in the rock world. Being not so flamboyant and dazed as one that Kevin Parker has made us familiar with, the music on "The Magic Booooom!!!" is well-nuanced and cohesive enough to really hear the songs here, not these free-form compositions the most of the top psych contemporaries are well-known for.
- One of the last releases by now-defunct Oviedo-based garage/punk-oriented indie label Discos Humeantes. The creative source of "Tres" lies somewhere in between Biznaga and labelmates Futuro Terror, definitely it's not that fast short and shiny guitar pop music you might now associate with the term 'punk'.
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