Los Bitchos – Let The Festivities Begin! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:02 minutes | 449 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © City Slang
Panthers prowling through a desert. Cowgirls swaggering into a saloon and kicking up dust. Riding shotgun with a Tarantino heroine. Having the fiesta of your lives under a giant piñata with all your friends. Los Bitchos’ hallucinatory surf-exotica is as evocative as it is playful: the London-based pan-continental group could well be your new favourite party band with their instrumental voyages that are the soundtrack to setting alight to a row of flaming sambucas and losing yourself to the night. They’ve got a bun-tight knack for a groove – and they’ve got the best fringes in rock’n’roll too.
Partying is the glue that bonds Los Bitchos together – as well as being superb musicians, that is. They’re used to drinking Mac DeMarco under the table, having been enlisted by him to support him on various shows across Europe. Serra Petale (guitar), Agustina Ruiz (keytar), Josefine Jonsson (bass) and Nic Crawshaw (drums) hail from different parts of the world but met via all-night house parties, or through friends, in London. Their unique sound binds them together, though, taking in a retro-futuristic blend of Peruvian chica, Argentine cumbia, Turkish psych and surf guitars. They are London’s answer to Khruangbin, if Khruangbin spent all weekend getting slammed on cheap tequila in a Dalston dive bar.
“I wanted to sound like Van Halen and Cocteau Twins – but from Turkey,” says multi-instrumentalist Serra, who was born herself in Western Australia and takes a lot of inspiration from her mother’s 70s Anatolian rock records. The rest of the band bring influences from their upbringings, too. Agustina comes from Uruguay and the group fell in love with her Latin-American music collection (as much as they did Madonna’s ‘La Isla Bonita’ period). Then there’s Josefine from Sweden – “who brings a touch of out-of-control pop,” her bandmates joke – and Nic from south London, who drummed in various punk bands before rounding off Los Bitchos. “Coming from all these different places,” says Serra, “it means we’re not stuck in one genre and we can rip up the rulebook a bit.”
Tracklist:
01. Los Bitchos – The Link Is About To Die (03:48)
02. Los Bitchos – I Enjoy It (03:24)
03. Los Bitchos – Pista (Fresh Start) (03:22)
04. Los Bitchos – FFS (02:52)
05. Los Bitchos – Tropico (03:36)
06. Los Bitchos – Las Panteras (03:52)
07. Los Bitchos – Good to Go! (03:02)
08. Los Bitchos – Change of Heart (03:33)
09. Los Bitchos – Tripping at a Party (02:43)
10. Los Bitchos – Try the circle! (03:54)
11. Los Bitchos – Lindsay Goes to Mykonos (02:51)
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