Cuello – Trae Tu Cara lp

Cuello – Trae Tu Cara lp

If at this point you need to be introduced to Cuello, it is because you have been in Babia for the last two years. Excuse me if I'm taking too many confidences and it sounds a bit abrupt, but that's how it is. And that's not the worst, far from it. The worst part is that you've been missing out on one of the most exciting bands on the state scene. It became clear with his debut, the overwhelming “Mi brazo que te sobre” (2013), and it was ratified just twelve months later with “Modo eterno” (2014), his second installment. Two records that smooth your hair and disfigure your face, like when you look out the window of a car traveling at full speed. Two euphoric, uninhibited albums, brimming with perfect melodies and choruses, the kind that stick to your brain forever and you're pushed to chant like there's no tomorrow. Yes, Cuello is one of those groups. Call it attitude, 90s indie-rock or robust pop in a state of permanent effervescence. Actually, call it what you want, because they don't care. They're too busy making songs to care.

The proof is that his third album arrives, again, a year after the previous one. The saying goes that it's never too late if happiness is good, and it's true, because “Bring your face” is as good an album as the two that preceded it to introduce Cuello's world. If, on the contrary, you already knew them, you will confirm what you suspected: that they have the secret, that they have the formula. That is why the eleven songs that his new work includes create addiction once again. Alfred Hitchcock once commented that movies have to start with an earthquake and work their way up from there. If true, the plump British director would be more than proud of Cuello's third LP. When you think it can't keep growing, the next song arrives and it does it again, in a feverish crescendo that culminates with "El joven" and "Obligaciones al nacer", and that only gives the listener a breather at the end, with the band in surprising flamenco way.