Album: Allá, Es Tiempo (Creammed Discs)
Played quietly, the music made by this trio of Chicagobased Mexican-Americans provides a gentle summer samba soundtrack to merge seamlessly into the wallpaper of your local branded coffee emporium.
Turned up and tuned into, though, what you will hear is a blast of 21st-century pop; ticking the boxes marked Spector, post-rock, prog, Tropicalia and cosmic jazz while never really leaving gentle summer samba soundtrack mode.
This is a neat trick. But as strings swoop and songs fade in and out, it becomes apparent that, in spite of exceptionally bright moments, ‘Es Tiempo’ somehow fails to burst into life.
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