LOS LLAMARADA - Gone Gone Cold LP

Dark noise rock from Mexico; the group apparently shut down after releasing this because the drug cartel had grown too strong in their town for them to be able to safely make what they wanted to.

Since their first album on S.S., The Exploding Now!, Llamarada has made some of the most striking psychedelic punk of the last decade. In the spirit of Red Crayola and 13th Floor Elevators, Llamarada approach to psych is devoid of rules, trends, or convention.

Like Mars, they feel their way through sound, finding songs in the playing. However, while The Exploding Now! and their second album, Take the Sky, reflect the band’s (then) excitement with their future and possibility, Gone Gone Cold looks at present day Mexico and its never-ending Drug War.