The Mistake – Anticongelante CD

The Mistake – Anticongelante CD

Very interesting new material from The Mistake. We have known them for a long time because of their affiliation to the post-hardcore sound, being the maximum exponent of that style in the Canary Islands (along with This Drama or Daylight in Red), with previous works recorded by Xavi Navarro and Santi Garcia and, always under the coordinates of a genre little given to outbursts of pop air tone. But something has happened within the Canarian trio to open up a heaven that perhaps not even they themselves had foreseen: and that is that they have discovered their own talent for concentrating their energies on melody and, far beyond that, on endless of resources that pop music puts at your fingertips when you are not prejudiced against assimilating it. And, when we talk about pop, we mean rabidly contemporary pop that drinks from punk as well as from synthesizers, and even from acoustic restlessness when the song deserves it. Thus, we find in Antifreeze a variety of resources, including styles that, always under a common pattern, make The Mistake a commendable modern group. We will find a thousand references that we would not have to relate to each other unless we understood that they are united by a mantle of veteran, lack of prejudice and musical restlessness outside any complex. That voice in Spanish that brings them closer to our Nueva Vulcano, but also those keyboards between Interpol, Futureheads and even Maximö Park, or those introspective acoustics close to Mr. Chinarro or Los Planetas, without forgetting the punch emocore of its beginnings, reminiscent of Sensefield, Chamberlain or Superchunk. Probably this amalgamation of genres, mixed with coherence and impeccably executed, is typical of a group with a career of more than 10 years of The Mistake, who after two excellent albums like Opium (13 Recordings/La Felguera, 2001) and Polaroids (2005) , have led them to consider this, the third, as a second starting point of their career.