Peepshow "Como Hacer Una Bomba Atomica" (p)2018 Polar Records
Peepshow is the rock formation from Valencia that’s got family ties to (i.o. shares the drummer German Garcia with) another local combo En Septiembre that appeared to be one of my last year’ discoveries.
I started to get familiar with the band from the first video filmed for this album: “Nuevo Imperio”. The song sounded like it could fit to the last Dorian’s album so initially I thought Peepshow was one of these electro rock bands. Recently it revealed that sound-wise this danceable song had little in common with the rest of the album. Musically – apart from the aforementioned “Nuevo Imperio” – two main influences are easily distinguishable (or at least they seem distinguishable for me personally): the Nacho Vegas’ narratives and Viva Suecia’s guitar-fueled sonic grandeur. The band’s modus operandi is when a song starts with the subtle arrangements over the slow-paced drum beat, gains up and then blossoms into the epic-like space rock crescendo midway.
The lyrics are bittersweet, sarcastic and rather biting regardless of the matter the frontman Uve Martinez is singing about: the social issues (“1999”, “Nuevo Imperio”), or the indie music mythos (“Gente Normal”), or the human intercourse (“Como Hacer Una Bomba Atomica”).
The production qualities are additionally complementing already top-notch album, the band sounds really big. In the world better than ours they could make a considerable splash with it.
