By José Gandue @Gandour
I think we've discussed this before. We once said on Zonagirante.com that many people had turned away from rock because a good number of the bands that claimed to play it had become rigid, very closed-minded in their concept, and excessively dogmatic. Some of his musicians took their discourse, their guild, their tribe a little too seriously. Instead of being inclusive, they boasted about being the smartest people in the world by distorting the sound of their guitars and causing unnecessary scenes everywhere. To the new generations, or at least to a significant portion of their members, They no longer enjoy rock and roll because they no longer feel that it contains the excitement, the joy, the rebellion. There is only the dictatorship of nostalgia, the unhealthy return to times that will never come back.
But luckily the spirit of garage rock survives in certain groups tasked with recapturing the attitude and the pleasure. Luckily, there are still artists who know how to work magic with songs of three and a half minutes or less. They don't need complicated gadgets or pyrotechnics to dazzle their fans, nor stadiums to showcase thunderous experiences to excite those who still see rock as a living, evolving entity., regardless of what grandparents or radicals full of outdated clichés say. Luckily, true friends in joy, we can still listen to albums like Bestiary, of the Argentinians residing in the Basque Country, Capsule.
Martin L Guevara and Coni Duchess remain one of the sexiest couples in the genre. Years go by, but they haven't lost the magic in their work. Topics such as Sphinx, Away from Heaven, Siren's lips y Magnets (That opening riff alone pays for the whole album.) They bear witness to and have confidence in their fusion of glam, punk, and stoner rock, in the sensitivity of their melodies, in the exuberant rage that still runs through their veins. There's always a respect for David Bowie in songs like Around y Dry your mind. The sadness still has a foothold in reality when you hear Cry for You. And to top it all off, their version of Russian Roulette (originally by The Lords of the New Church), it's a cover that will make anyone fall in love. Anyway, Bestiary It is an intense, vibrant jolt of 12 recordings that remind us, amidst so much repetitive zombie music, that there is still something to look forward to in that great circus called Rock and Roll.
You may say that Capsula doesn't have the popularity it deserves and that they will never be as visible as the Rolling Stones or as their damn personal heroes, such as MC5, The Stooges, The Yardbirds, Pescado Rabioso, or T-Rex. It doesn't matter. As long as you and, through your message, the rest of your friends are pleased, everything, for the moment, will go well, as things really should go in this world.