Espejo Convexo - Ruina Circular (2017) EN

This nation has this something in them because after Stockhaussen there is another project on our blog, that offers a combination of shoegaze, darkness and cold - Espejo Convexo.  The band from the Mexican capital city's goal is to create music they call a "darkgaze pop" - as catchy as jarring. If you add the feeling of an incoming danger and darkness, no wonder the combination is interesting.

The band is really good at the not easy task of combining genres. Thick bass strings set the course and lead the dark atmosphere of guitars and electronic sounds and really intriguing vocals: shoegazing by Azul Carazo (her name means "blue" in Spanish, the colour of sadness) as in "Color del Cielo" and a colder one by Daniel Arp (e.g. in "El Miedo").

Czemu nie. The whole thing sounds like a calmer and sadder version of the Horrors. The name of the band means a convex mirror - a mirror that exaggerates feelings, disfigures reality, scares with deformation? Why not.

"Ruina Circular" costs 84 MXN.

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