Mecanicos – Nomade

 

 

Mecanicos – Nomade
Self released – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Sludge, Doom, Psych
Rated: *****

We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return. And we’d better have some kick ass music with us to keep us going! As soon as those first gnarly tones hit you… That lumbering opening of that first stonerrock track El fantasma de Belgrado on their new album Nomade you know the trio from Mecánicos are some real heavy mothersludgers; some ten-ton heavy motherfuzzers! Mecánicos hails from Argentina and is comprised out of Guido Braini on drums, Martin Siris on bass and Luis Braini on guitar and vocals. Formerly known as Mecánicos de Satán they already released their Dos album in 2013, Odisea in 2017 and an EP called El increíble sonido de los Mecánicos de Satán and the band formed in 2006. Where they named it in honor of the Ford Pinto, the famous car from the seventies, that immediately exploded upon collision, burning the passengers inside. Now, that’s a righteous reason to name your band Mecánicos de Satán! We already mentioned that amazing opening track; they continue that heaviness, that fuzzy and sludgy influence but on the second track ‘La maquina se detiene’, the open it up with soaring vocals, that gliding guitar that immediately turn it more of a spacey stonerrock odyssey. Now, we realize the album art will surely push the listener into that direction anyway. But you soon have this feeling, even though my Spanish is severely limited, you are listening to the exploits of a space drifter that looks back at earth from all those million miles away and is saddened but what he sees. Third track Solaris enhances that emotion; with that lonely guitar sound in the middle before that slow rising end starts. The way they use those circling riffs, rumbling drums on many of the tracks also give off a bit of Greenleaf air; which everybody will say, is a good thing! There were a few times listening to this album where I wished the vocals had been a tiny more up front in the mix. But on the last session before jotting all this down, they actually felt perfect. Just check out fifth track Red Alert, it feels pushed back, but it will still make you ball your fist, wave it in everyone’s general direction and scream along, mouthing all the wrong words. Seventh track ‘Caras en el parque’ with its driving rhythm, that propelling drum work, has this ghostly element to it, but will also make you want to dance. Eight track Misa has you soaring off into space again and tenth final track Replicas closes the album off in fine stonerrock form. And if you are not in love with this album by now… Well… Love Is The One Thing we're capable of perceiving That Transcends dimensions of Time And Space. And Mecánicos seems to hint at that once again. This world’s a treasure… Giving us so much… And Nomade is here to give you even more!

(Written by JK)

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