MP3 Album - Microbricolages

21st century 3d world country electronic rock

21 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, ELECTRONIC: Experimental



Details:
MICROBRICOLAGES cd review from TIME OUT NY (issue 545)

More or less the French word for âdo-it-yourself,â bricolage is a technique by which new art is assembled using clutter at hand; in anthropological terms, it also refers to a cultural identity created from subversive borrowings. Both definitions suit Album, a young, Monterrey, Mexicoâbased quartet whose second full-length, Microbricolages, offers an hour-long barrage of brief, densely constructed gemsânone of which sound Mexican in any conventional sense. Café Tacuba may be part of the bandâs heritage, but alternative-pop acts such as Radiohead, Beck and the Beta Band are far more apparent antecedents.

Opening track âEs Fácilâ (âitâs easyâ) leaps off the disc with a warbling, New Orderâstyle bass line and a stuttering beat, as keyboards mimic bucolic kalimbas and brassy horns. âLos Mejores Pistoleros Vienen a Tuxpanâ tags a whimsically ornate Beatlesque arrangement with a jiving vocal breakdown, which crashes abruptly into the glitchy dream-pop of âAmarama.â In âÁngel,â the band murmurs robotic harmonies that fuse the Beach Boys to Kraftwerk over a taut, jangly Talking Heads pulse. Albumâs quirky sense of humor comes to the fore in songs whose titles translate as âMoog is dead; I saw the documentaryâ and, perhaps inevitably, âmore cowbell.â

The intentionally opaque production wonât help gringos attempting to parse Albumâs lyricsâmost of which favor regional slang and wordplay over straightforward storytelling, anyway. But the groupâs confident, polished appropriation of pop detritus from everywhere and everywhen assures that Microbricolages loses nothing in translation. -Steve Smith

MUSIC IS NOT DEAD
Few do the advant-garde future pop better than the boys from Monterry,Mexico.

DEMO UNIVERSE
I've no idea what the songs are about, but this is all so interesting and exciting it really doesn't matter.
There's something special happening south of the border and its name is Album.

bettawreckonize.com
It doesn't matter what language it is, rock is rock⦠and These guys from Mexico can just straight out jam.