Re

I fuckin love all user-submitted Mexican albums. Love my neighbors to the south and their kickin' smooth grooves.

Harlequin-act albums tend to require a turn somewhere to save the length, and Re's arrived around La pinta. This is an - emphasize - happy member of the too-many-ideas club, a maximalist piece which inspires emotional understanding while resisting the mathematical form. The balancing feat promises new highlights each spin around.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: La ingrata, El ciclon, Esa noche, Tropico de cancer, El fin de la infancia, Las flores, El baile y el salon

Comparing this to the White Album is incredibly accurate. A couple songs do take a notch down, but I thoroughly enjoy the entry.

An eclectic, complex, Latin American rock, pop, jazz, folk album. An hour long, but plenty of twists and turns to keep it high energy and interesting. Not something I would have listened to without this list, but I really enjoyed it and would absolutely revisit. Rating: 4.5 Playlist track: La ingrata Date listened: 08/08/24

Definitely interesting, eclectic maybe to a fault. The vocals intermittently got on my nerves, getting into some caricaturish modes, too much nasal sawing, not enough melody.

Reminds me of a Mexican Squeeze or XTC.

I enjoyed some of this, but at times it grated on my nerves, especially the vocals. 3 stars.

This was a pretty fun listen and a welcome addition of a Mexican artist. Thanks for recommending. Interesting, diverse collection of songs. A little stylistically scattershot for my taste, and the vocals don't always land. But when they get it right, this is pretty great. Fave Songs: Madrugal, Esa Noche, Las Flores, El Baile y el Salón, El Puñal y el Corazón, 24 Horas

Thought I was listening to a Mexican Now That’s What I Call Music compilation! So many diverse styles. However only a few songs where the multiple styles are fused together, which would have been more progressive. Accomplished nonetheless.

I am Latin, but I have never been a big fan of Cafe Tacuba, I consider that only the classics Ingrata and Las Flores truly stand out, since it seems like a mistake to fill an album with irrelevant songs or, on the contrary, only include songs to meet a quota . Most of the songs didn't provoke me at all, they are quite insipid in their experimentality. rate 2.5

Wanted to like the mix of traditional Hispanic + some modern electronic elements, but the vocals were so grating and the execution so lacking that this one became more of a slog than anything else.

One of the greatest albums of all times of the latin rock in Spanish and that should have been included in the original list. It simply doesn’t make sense with so many people having Spanish as their native language that just a couple of albums in Spanish were included in the list. I grew up listening to this album, and it is just entirely amazing. A lot of genres with the particular style of Cafe Tacvba, one of the greatest Mexican rock bands, one of the longest-running bands in the planet with their original lineup, having collaborations with David Byrne, Incubus and Beck. It was the only Mexican band that I can remember that did a tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one their albums, and it was for Re because it was a big deal for the Mexican rock music and still is.

Fun music, but at times the mixing felt a little off. Mostly the drums sounded very unnarural

This is pretty fun musically, but the singing has an awful jokey edge to it. Only at times, though. 3/5.

Nice. :)

It's... different

Well, I couldn't make anything out of this. Sure that there people like this kinda South American vibe, but I'm not one of them.

It's helping the algorithms. So far.

Na man 1

Really? Seriously....