Surfin' Bichos - Mas Alla - LP

There was a time when beyond Surfin’ Bichos there was nothing. The arrival of the band from Albacete, with an independent scene still in its infancy, changed everything. There is a before and after the four albums they released between 1989 and 1993.

“Más Allá” marks the return of Surfin’ Bichos to recording. Thirty years later, they present themselves without artifice and doing what they do best. As if nothing had happened, with the naturalness of an assassin. Their palette of sounds is still just as relevant; their music, just as sharp. Their songs leave a mark. Seasonal hype aside, the Surfin’ sound like they want to sound. This is: bastard pop; or a weird, slightly twisted rock. Punk or proto–punk rock, whose softness or hardness is modulated by emotion, by the story it is telling you, but without losing its organic character, its animal form. This is an album cooked in the blast furnaces of the pandemic and the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. That is the context in which these songs were written and composed, in the absolute solitude of a ghost town. They are, therefore, “imbued with that spirit of the end, of beyond, of the millennium,” in the words of Fernando Alfaro himself. The transcendence it evokes connects with what those days were; we are facing a majestic, solemn, and self-exploratory work without falling into the obvious.

TRACKLIST

1| Machine that doesn't stop; 2| The sea horse; 3| The dance of beyond; 4| Lotus Europa; 5| Mediterranean light; 6| Shining the end; 7| Signs; 8| Mortal; 9| I who have seen you; 10| Your own Christmas; 11| Ultraphonic conversation at 4 am; 12| The invisible woman;