Persona – Dead Make-Up CD

Persona – Dead Make-Up CD

If trends were our thing, we would say that depending on which environment, the 90s return. Luckily, those kinds of phrases don't upset us too much, quite the opposite of what happens to us with good music. Persona have once again demonstrated with their third album that they are one of the most powerful groups yet to be discovered for the vast majority, and that the ability of the handy trio to compact their sound is amazing. Without fissures or hesitating movements, Persona are becoming one of the most solid concrete blocks of state alternative rock, drinking from North American references that go from one coast to the other, between the relative dissonance of Washington DC and the darkness of primitive grunge. And despite this, it is difficult to find a name that defines them better than their listener. And even more so with the steps forward they have taken since their second album, Accident (BCore, 2006). Much more careful voices, much richer in nuances and harmonies, that raise the music to the clouds so that later the drum base and bass make it put its feet on the ground. At times, in the middle of hell of convulsive magma. A definition in each touch, in each beat, which, effectively, starts in the 90s to launch itself in search of contemporaneity. Perhaps that is its greatest virtue, updating a sound that has no intention of indulging in indulgence, but instead seeks to constantly surprise, with the only apparent motto of delving into the listener's entrails over and over again. And the truth is that the result has surprised and captivated us, since the album flows in a constant balance between the punch and the caress, and if that is already interesting canned in a studio recording, we don't even want to think what can happen in the front row of one of his concerts. Pure physics, its thunder oozes elegance and its capacity for sound introspection manages to make anyone who intrudes into the depths of this excellent album travel.