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"This record is the best late-night cough syrup epic
since Royal Trux was peaking... an honest-to-gawd gibbering masterpiece of
true life psych punk."
Z Gun Zine
"White Vinyl never sounded so dirty."
KFJC Radio
"Four fucked up kids from Mexico playing heavily
atmospheric dark psych that sounds like a Star Tek transporter on bad acid."
Florida's
Dying
"Their DIY approach delivers a dingy sound that's
curiously exciting to ears dulled by music overdone by high tech magic."
Belinda Acosta
The Austin Chronicle
"Los Llamaradas "The
Exploding Now" LP [S-S Records]—Best new act of 2007?"
http://www.holymountain.com/news.html
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"Los Llamarada
The Exploding Now LP
(S-S)
When you really start digging into new music that willingly files itself in
the margins, it becomes more and more crucial to single out bands who craft
their own musical language and identity, rather than co-opt large chunks of
the language of others; the ones that stick themselves further in, if you
wanna get Freudian about it. Monterrey, Mexico's Los Llamarada, to complete
the metaphor, are balls deep and/or size queens, straining solid particulate
matter of other truthtellers into a slurry, then letting parts of it dry
into brittle peaks in the smoggy Oaxacan sun. Has an echoey feel to it like
listening to an answering machine tape, and a self-taught vibe that chewed
up the Fall at their most obscure, New Zealand experimentalism at its most
obtuse, and a lo-fi art/pop cassette underground (or, say, Gang Gang Dance)
feel that's all but dissipated in the wake of the '80s and '90s and moved
straight on to structure-free realms. There is a backbone here, and its
attendant skeleton has grown wild and unpruned. Resist the urge to make lazy
comparisons of Los Llamarada to other bands; the stiffness in their
songwriting and performance suggests that they are learning as they go
along, which makes for some of the most exciting new sounds. I've listened
to this one a dozen times and keep finding new things within. 600 copies,
white vinyl, silkscreened sleeves. One of the most shocking and unique
pieces of agitpunk since the Meta-Matics LP, but way more devastated and
angered."
Doug
Mosurak, Dusted Magazine.
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/609
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"Most recently it's been the young lads in Los
Llamarada securing internet hype from the most worthy of places. Roland over
at Siltblog was the first to bite into their debut long-player, The
Exploding Now (SS Records, currently on fire) and Dusted's Doug Mosurak
followed. Both love the group from Monterrey, Mexico, as they should. The
record is quite a jarring listen through and through, as if the youngsters
are learning to play and write on the spot with the tape rolling. I could
throw out references to Jandek, Teenage Jesus, Cheater Slicks, etc...blah
blah outsider this...but honestly, you just have to hear it. Their live show
has received numerous thumbs up after only one gig in the states, including
slobbering praise from Jared Phillips of Times New Viking, and this LP would
get two thumbs up from me if it didn't already have me sucking on one of
mine. Will end up on the year-end lists of people smarter than you. A-"
Population: Doug Blog.
http://populationdoug.blogspot.com/2007/04/hype-wrangler.html
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