“Even though we can forget” is the debut album of To Mars, one of the new groups on the Barcelona scene. These four friends have decided to distance themselves from the current urban trend to return to a sound more typical of years ago, the most patriotic indie.
It is not only its sound that makes us frame this album as more typical of previous years, it is also because of the length of the songs. In the current era in which singles and short stimuli reign, in which it seems that the shorter the songs are, the better, they have decided to take almost all of their compositions to exceed three and a half minutes in length. A rare bird that will surely delight those who long for bygone times.
And, in an album in which the sounds of the indie genre turn, great stories could not be missing. “Even though we can forget” It is a kind of diary that serves its four creators to remember different experiences, from pure stories of love and heartbreak, to their own experience within music. The leitmotiv of the work are memories, ones that will include their time in music of which, although they still have a long way to go, they are already a part.
To round out their presentation album they wanted to have different collaborators. On the one hand, Gonçal Planes and the legendary band Mi Capitán join in “To the bones”, while COLET is included in the ballad “There are no shadows” and Avida Dollars in one of the rockiest tracks, “Fireflies”.
Definitely, “Even though we can forget” It is a work that shows great care and that surprises us at first listen due to the group’s bravery in betting on a sound that we believed was already in danger of extinction.
PS: for those who like to discover those little ones easter eggs On the albums, you will like to know that this one hides many related to the number eleven, a very special number for the band.