Sunset Images - Traumatismo Nacional (2021)

Sunset Images is a project led by Samuel Osorio from Mexico City. Its core lays in the ability and willingness to experiment with noisy guitar sounds and more or less dreamy atmosphere. Already the project's Obscure Daze was close to be featured on this blog back in 2017 and with the release of the third album in the project's discography, Traumatismo Nacional I couldn't miss the opportunity to drop some lines on the artists' noisy souls.

As the title suggests, the album is said to be "a sharp and deep wound represented in sound, a scar that we have carried inside for a long time and each time it hurts even more", a commentary on the state of the society with all of its misogynist, racist and chauvinistic tropes. Osorio meant it as a comment on his own country, but, in fact, you can apply it to the modern society anywhere. And this rage, the heaviness of the critique is clearly notable from the very first moments of the album: it is filled with angry and fierce music with punk-like drums and a lot of noise in every second (like in the euphorically mad Prohibición) but also toned down by the oneiric atmosphere. 

This anger is also clear in the vocals, often without much meaning except for the desperate, screaming frustration. This raging atmosphere, filtered by some dreamy and dispersed lenses, goes on and on, finding its pinnacle moments in the absolute noise of メルド / Merudo. Afterwards, the tracks get calmer for a while, but even then, they are not a tiny a bit less noisy. And finally, the album finishes with two long track psychedelic to their core. This is the essence of noisy rock with a great touch of dreamy psychedelia.

Traumatismo Nacional costs 4 EUR (90 MXN).

Check: Prohibición

Country: Mexico

Genre: angry noise rock

Label: Little Cloud Records/ Dirty Filthy Records 

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