Stream and revisit: our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past week is new from Los Bitchos, Let The Festivities Begin!.
“If you think about it, there’s nothing more punk – more punk as fuck, in fact – than an album full of instrumentals.”
Need to set things in context? Do it yourself, listener. Want to apply some true meaning? Be our guest. Do it. For yourself. Or don’t, we don’t give a damn.”
“Admittedly, you can’t apply this to the work of Jean Michelle-Jarre, but for Los Bitchos the label fits just fine. Their story is also pleasingly left field; the name is an intentional bastardisation of the Spanish phrase Los Bichos, which means ‘the bugs’.”
“Based in London now, the all-female quartet originally hail from Australia, Sweden and Uruguay respectively, while drummer Nic Crawshaw is British, and Let The Festivities begin was produced by none other than Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos.”
