It is evident that, once installed on a summit, you breathe and live much better. Free from ties. A privileged position that makes your decisions come from those concessions that must be made to get right there, to the top. Fat Geese They climbed that summit, thanks to the dance-like and casual effectiveness of festive songs like “In The Night”, “Sta Guai” or “Petar-ho”, and now he can afford to continue doing things his way, but without accommodations. It’s not about resting on your laurels, it’s about eating them. And that’s just what they’ve done with this one. “The fruit of madness”.
Josep Montero already warned me when I interviewed him about his previous job. “Top with life” (Halley, 21). Then the Catalan musician and singer told me that, in reality, he would like to perform very few concerts a year to dedicate himself to creating and producing, because what he really enjoyed was the creative process and not so much having to put on a good face. there where he was going to play with the band. Well, this “The fruit of madness” It’s just what the title indicates. It is an album that is the result of a process of letting yourself go in the studio and putting into practice any idea, no matter how crazy it may seem a priori. It’s about getting the most out of that fiddling with the console, the bases and the effects to make it sound fat, with more electronics than ever and, I don’t know to what extent, revitalize in the process the Justin Delasiembra, the duo of producers who Montero himself joins Joan Borràs, the band’s keyboard player, who seems to sample everything they are capable of doing, to then offer their services to all the young puppies of the Catalan urban scene.
Thus the disk opens with “How is the Patio”, an unbeatable example of what it means to combine a classic rap base, with effects made with a deflating balloon and that sense of humor from the ‘boletaire’ tradition, capable of laughing in two directions back and forth, that is, at the environment and at me. because, no matter how much I see everything from that summit I referred to at the beginning, I am still part of the same ecosystem. And so we come to “Bambi”, saturated dance base theme that is, along with “Molta Tralla”, “Like day and night” and the dembow rhythms of “Toca”, where the Catalan combo’s new interest in electronics is most visible, as if that “Promise”, wonderful and distant collaboration with the Basque Zetak, would have left a deep mark to develop in the future.
“The fruit of madness” It is one of those albums that gains in value with each new listen you give it, because in each one of them you will discover details that had gone unnoticed from the beginning. A varied album in the choice of rhythms, but with the amalgamation of the Oques label, characterized by that freedom and absence of complexes to face a topic as only they know how to do, with its own personality. An album capable of combining the delicacy and melancholy that always has a place in their albums (“Ping-pong”, “Sort de tu”) with that classic declaration of principles that, like “Jubilar-me”, always identifies them. A total lack of concern for how the rules of the game work, even if they know them by heart. .