Tiburona They manage something that differentiates them from other militants in that female section that is oxygenating the native guitar scene with testosterone, in a fortunately increasingly numerous section in which, among others, Las Odio, Cariño, Shego, Ginebras, Aiko el Group or Manes. It is not that the trio formed by Laura del Amo, Rita Dolores and Supercarmen Merino is better or worse than any of their league mates, but they have that specific spark that they guide to their own benefit with credibility and conviction.
It is, above all, that marked retro yeyé aroma with a preference for garage-pop, additionally enriched with elements of surf and power-pop at the service of very attractive-looking compositions. Some qualities that shine, in the foreground and without interruption, throughout the present “We are extinct,” an album of clear ideas, proud and with attitude, as well as seasoned based on a hurried rhythm that, in just twenty-five minutes, furiously dispatches nine pills of badass appearance and pop soul.
Some sharp and ironic themes that drink from the cursed spirit of The Cramps, The Shangri-las, The B-52s or Undershakers, and point to the sixties as well as the nineties, while not losing sight of a topicality reflected in all those stories contained in the songs. It happens with the narrative of “Thinking of you”, the hit “Love Brew”, “Event Horizon”, “Naked Lunch” (which reminds us how cool Dum Dum Girls were)“Open relationship”a “Wandering” with echoes of the Colombians Elia and Elizabeth, or the final bad grape of “May you die well.”
“We are extinct” It is a firm step forward Tiburona regarding that also valuable debut that was “Alone and happy” (Auto, 21) and some previous EP; and also (and above all) it looks like a firm declaration of intentions on the part of the people of Madrid. An album that spreads exponentially and hides some of the best songs by the group to date. The kind that, in power-trio concerts and when they come into contact with the stage, will surely end up becoming classics in their repertoire after the audience has spread out.