Los Lobos
This Time

THE REVIEW

For many, the name Los Lobos will remind them of a band that became famous thanks to a cover of the classic by Ritchie Valens "La Bamba," for many others... not even that. I discovered the Wolves precisely thanks to a song contained in this beautiful record. It must be immediately said that the musicians in question know their stuff and stand out among the masses of "American Rock" groups precisely for their songwriting skills.

The Mexamericans in this album mix their (and only their) rock, rhythm n' blues, rock n' roll with sounds and rhythms from their folk tradition. And that's how we find a Cumbia titled "Cumbia Raza," with a rhythm that I like to define as swaying when the group's Mexican soul comes out, and you get caught by their naturalness in playing South American music. Another example is "Corazon," a classic Cha-Cha. Moving to the Rock part of the album, we capture well all the nuances of which this Rock is a container. Beautiful in my opinion are the first two songs, "This Time" and "Oh Yeah," difficult to categorize but very groovy-folk-delic. . . . . "Run Away With You," a very pleasant well-rhythmed Rock n' roll. Another well-crafted song is "Some say, some do," very bluesy and with a Sax-guitar combo during the solo worthy of mention. Another positive note in my opinion is the skill of the singers Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo.

If you know them, you can go for it blindly; if you don't know them, you won't be disappointed at all. Mauri.