World Music

Artist La Nueva Banda De Santisteban
Title Sabor A Fresa
Label Vampisoul

Artist Las Malas Amistades
Title Maleza
Label Honest Jon's
Las Malas Amistades — ‘the bad influences’ — are from Bogota, in Colombia; Maleza is their third album for Honest Jon’s. Lovingly assembled, it presents twenty-eight exquisite variations of suadade, in an acoustic, post-punk take on Tropicalismo — knockabout, impromptu, snapshot and sublime. ‘… kind of like if the Young Marble Giants sang in Spanish and didn’t fully know how to play… pretty great’ (Vice); ’... deliciously haunting... rekindles the spirit of DIY that their British counterparts have so patently forgotten’ (The Times); ’one of the most charming idiosyncrasies I have heard all year... where truth is seized accidentally and musical shambles are sweet, virtuous and silly...(Plan B);