Take a little art punk, a little rockabilly, a heapin’ helpin’ of ’70s garage rock and a whole lotta blues. Shake. Dust liberally with cocksure swagger.
Now translate it into Spanish.
This is the music of Guadalupe Plata, and if you’ve been following this blog for very long, you know this is the kind of loud, ballsy, dirty-in-all-kinds-of-ways music I love (Indeed, sometimes their sound so closely resembles that of the Soledad Brothers that I’ve been unsure of which band I was listening to when Guadalupe Plata have come up in shuffle mode). The lead single, “Pollo PodrÃo”, gives a punch of rockabilly, but the album grooves in a few different directions, and even goes a bit Maggot Brain-y at the end.
Perico de Dios (guitar and vocals), Carlos Jimena (drums) and Paco Luis Martos (washtub bass) hail from Ubeda, Spain, and this is their second album (this and their first, a six-song EP, are both self-titled… because that’s not going to get confusing at all). They’re offering it up on Bandcamp in a name-your-price deal, and throughout the summer, all proceeds will go to help fund the Muddy Roots Music Festival Official Film Project. Now that is a good deal.
