Coming near the end of our video-coverage of the Ciudad Emergente festival, here’s a video that we would like to share with you:
El Mató a un Policía Motorizado performing their hit Chica Rutera:

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At long last we have in our hands the new album by rusiA, an Argentinean band that we have been following since the beginning of this blog and that was included in our compilation Canciones Pegajosas (Catchy Songs). The album was christened Accidental and right off the bat it is clear that rock is the dominant sound of this new record, on which catchy riffs and eighties-style keyboards abound. It was hard for us to choose only two songs to share with you because the whole album is very good, so we ended up going with the lead track and Algo nuevo, a song with a more acoustic and britpopesque sound. Download as you please:

rusiA - Objetivo
rusiA - Algo nuevo

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To celebrate their ten-year anniversary, the Canadian band The Western Investor, formerly known as Feisty, has re-released their first EP as a download. The record originally saw a limited release in 1998, and it includes some songs from the movie Better Than Chocolate. For this release it has been licensed by Creative Commons by-nc-sa 2.5, so it can be copied, shared and remixed as long as the license is respected. Here is the link (vía Boing Boing):

Feisty - EP (1998)

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Hiding behind a name reminiscent of abundance or excess is Javier Yunes (guitar, piano and vocals), a musician born in Córdoba, Argentina who spent his entire childhood and adolescence in Catamarca (along with Supernova, his first group, he supported Babasónicos during Jessico’s performance in the city). He is now permanently settled in Buenos Aires, and after recording the first the.plethora.project album alone, he added Fernando Baes (programming and keyboards) to the band in order to perform it live. The results were positive and it brought them to record this EP (together with Tomás Raitzin on bass), which serves as a teaser for what will be the next album by the project, which is now a full band.
It’s called Elephants Sound Asleep and it is composed of four songs that create an atmosphere of tense calm throughout the EP, each one with distinct elements that subtly differentiate them from each other. For example, on Backlight, the track that opens the disc, distorted guitars have a lot of presence, while the song that follows it is more experimental and noisy. On Plevoir and White elephants of Atlantis the acoustic sound of the piano meshes very well with the minimalist electronic backing and the singer’s sorrowful voice.
But what we have to say has little importance when you have the possibility of downloading the entire EP and listening to it for yourself. Here are the links:

01. Backlight
02. Find you when you born
03. Plevoir
04. Elephants of Atlantis

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