We have started the distribution of our copies corresponding to the month of April. An issue that has the Northern Irish combo on the cover Kneecap.
They have become one of the most controversial groups today: provocative and combative, their speech always makes people uncomfortable. And will continue to do so in “Fenian” (Heavenly/(PIAS), 26), the next album they will present in our country and which has motivated us to Kneecap to our cover.
Gorillaz is already an internationally renowned group created album by album, with its mutations and its four fictional protagonists, but after “The Mountain” (Kong, 26) there is still Damon Albarn and his musicians. Again, yes, they are accompanied by a very long list of guests that goes from Sparks to Idles, from Bizarrap and Trueno to Omar Souleyman or Johnny Marr, in addition to the voices of some musicians who have already disappeared.
Consolidating itself as one of the leading names on the Catalan music scene, The Ludwig Band They present their fourth LP, “Pel carrer is comment” (L’Animeta, 26). An album built from the foundations of classic rock with which its proposal is based, but that opens its windows towards more pop sounds.
We meet members of Chiquita Movida one day after the premiere of his film and just a few days after the publication of “Alta Vaina” (Calaverita Records, 26), his debut. We chatted with them about their reinvention, their friendship and their music.
It is curious to interview a three-member duo. Even more so when one of them has no eyes or mouth: just yellow velvet skin. If I also tell you that all this happened in the same office as “El Chiringuito de Jugones”, I can only be talking to you about one group. They are called Besmayaand they have put all their “geekness”, heart and guitar soul into this second album, “Nobody’s Life” (Acqustic, 26).
According to the RAE, a martyr is that “person who suffers death in defense of his religion.” Devotee of The Beatles, Maximiliano Calvo kill the carefree musician we knew in 2023 as “The Rooster”to introduce us to a new man. In his most recent “Group Therapy” (Universal, 26) we meet a Maxi artisan, an annoyingly sincere recovering addict, and above all, a rock & roll martyr.
The Californian band Joyce Manor expands his sound in a seventh studio work titled “I Used To Go To This Bar” (Epitaph/(PIAS), 26), an album of clean guitars loaded with nostalgia and a sense of humor that was produced by Brett Gurewitz himself (Bad Religion). Its singer and guitarist, Barry Johnson, gives us the keys.
Six years after his last album, Nothing they return with “A Short History of Decay” (Run For Cover, 26), a diverse, introspective work with autobiographical elements articulated around the passage of time, memory and illness. They will visit us in April as part of the poster of the Barcelona Psych Festival.
Bad Management is a Valencian band formed by Elías (vocals), Pablo (keyboard), Hector (drums), Guille and Joan (guitars). After releasing his third album, “We do what we can” (Acqustic, 26), embark on a tour of Spain in which they will display their provocative musical repertoire.
In that exercise of eternal nostalgia in which emigrants to a big city live, Maria Jaume has remembered in “Sant Domingo Forever” (Halley Records, 26) those days of “gresca i xerinola” so typical of festivals, parades, popular meals and even the truce between those who really do not tolerate each other. An album that is much more than a party.
Maria Arnal opens a new professional path in his award-winning career with “LOVE” (Atlantic, 26), the Catalan’s solo introduction after a decade dedicated to avant-garde experimental pop in various formats. In the end, a natural encounter with all your skills and concerns elevated to the power of experience and self-knowledge, now on your own.
Of the ten puppets that illustrate the ten songs from his latest album on its cover “To This We Invite” (Self-published/Music Bus, 26), Miguel (guitar and voice), Álex (drums), Iván (bass) and Lucas (guitar) represent the ghost, the devil, the rat and the cigar respectively. The between extravagant and classic indie band from Barcelona Caprosreturns to our pages to present his second work in Spanish. An irreverent “anti-hate” manifesto made for the live show.
And that’s it for our most extensive interviews, but you can also find separate articles dedicated to Placebo and Jimmy Eat Worldin addition to interviews with Exsonvaldes, Pipiolas and musical A&R Toby L on the occasion of his work coordinating the charity album “Help 2”. That’s without counting our usual sections dedicated to reviews of albums, comics, books, podcasts, series and movies.
Ah! and don’t forget to accompany your reading with this playlist that we have made with all the contents of this month of April.
