Capsula – Rising Mountains

Other than selected single tracks here and there from long-dead sixties bands I don’t reckon I’ve heard much by Argentinian rock groups. For what is I think therefore justifiably classifiable as a first this, the second album from Capsula (late of Buenos Aires, now waiting to conquer the world from Bilbao), succeeded in grabbing my attention right from the start.

Singing in English the three-piece (two guys and a girl) have a great sound that features elements of The Mono-Men (’Found And Lost’), Monster Magnet (’Wild C’, criminally too short) and Sonic Youth in Krautrock mode (’Magnetic Brain’).

The main fact is they’re one of those great bands that sound like all their influences at virtually the same time and yet concoct a sound all of their own from out of that sonic soup, totally contradicting song number nine ‘Original Is Dead’ in the process.

Fourteen cuts grace this release and the pace doesn’t let up except on the garage blues of ‘The Sea Cave’ but the guitar solo therein more than compensates by keeping the listener keyed-up for the delights that follow in the second half of the album. Yet another great Hispanic musical contribution to this summer’s soundtrack from BCore records.