Tusoc – Monolito

 

 

Tusoc – Monolito
Self-released – 2026
Rock, Stoner
Rated: ****

Maybe it was erased by time or blown away... But I was sure I wrote something about their damn fine 2023 release Éter; just as I was sure the new album Monolito would rank high on the April Doom Charts. And indeed, the new Tusoc album made the published list of 40 out of more than 200 albums that received votes. But I assumed it would end up higher. I also found out I never got around to mentioning Éter… Or maybe it floated away on some strange desert wind… 

They have more and earlier releases as well, live album Vivo Desde el Éter from 2025 and Un Ciprés en Llamas from 2022. But Éter felt like a gigantic step forward and onto a road that would always combine their very own mysterious atmosphere around their drifting, floating version of stoner rock. And on Monolito they manage to do that even more, for each track seems to drift like a chapter from a book that never admits its ending, shifting from haze to eruption, from grief to firelight. 

The Tusoc four have this strange ability to create music that is entirely tangible yet feels like it might vanish as you are listening to it, leaving only minor footprints behind. The pages written with ancient soot crafted ink, remembers the dim lit room where the sounds were created. Somewhere inside a forgotten building in Rosario, Argentina, where the stone corridors sparked with electricity and the air inside remembers those old storms. The bass, the drum, they move like that ancient thunder that emptied the streets, while guitars have the keys to all those hidden doors… Sometimes they open to the riffs conjured by the desert heat outside and at other times submerged cathedrals of sound become everything you can see and feel. 

The vocals, distant and in Spanish, feel like the messages that were written on the walls that have long since crumbled, like on those monuments in ruin… Themes rise, fracture, and dissolve into atmosphere, as if the album is slowly erasing the path by which it was travelling, dusting away those footprints. Monolito by Tusoc is an album that will grab you completely and entirely and you will need to grab, with both hands, both ears and your entire heart. Otherwise it might float away on the desert wind… 

(Written by JK)

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