Velódromo
Velódromo EP

LA RECENSIONE

This beautiful Chilean shoegaze would be close to the Orthodoxy of the genre, particularly to the Swirlies, for vocal lines and guitars. In the final drive of Atila, you can feel the full beauty of a fast and monotone plucking on a ghostly guitar of gaseous nitrogen. And furious drum breaks.
But I say it would be close to Orthodoxy because there is this significant factor of the singing in Spanish. I can assure you it doesn't bother at all, except for Quisiste Ver which is rubbish; it sounds like a piece by Aventura in Paulstretch, or rather a Latin Laura Pausini. Who, incidentally, once declared she was inspired by Yo La Tengo.
Anyway, if you skip Quisiste Ver with its embarrassing spoken interlude, you'll find Catedral, which is one of those enveloping ballads full of sounds from the beyond; and how the real, sleepy arpeggio fits into the aerostatic lapping of the ambient guitar. The atmosphere is like a colorful Japanese Andean metropolis, in the early hours of dawn. The usual delight, the classic tricks, and never making us think that okay, enough, no longer needed.

Three tracks + one ugly for an abundant quarter-hour of narcoleptic yet worldly experience. With Gémini, which is one of the best heirs to Soon - the last from Loveless - filtered through the Swirlies in the extremely tremulous guitars, unstable and on the verge of cacophony, with a perfect and pulsating bass that's also Spaniard-like at times, which is a fine display of personality.
To dance in the arms of Morpheus and Orpheus; to sleep on the dance floor. Waiting for the debut with anticipation and much drowsiness.