By José Gandue @Gandour Photos by Florencia Petra
Two years after launching The O'Konor Synthesis, one of the best albums of the current decade in Latin America, by the Argentinian band He Killed a Motorcycle Policeman It exhibits, as a Christmas and Southern Hemisphere summer gift, cUnreleased songs, B-sides and special versions from that recording made at the Texas Sonic Ranch studios, this time presented as a package under the title of The Other Dimension. The truth is, after listening to it with genuine curiosity and excitement, We are pleased that the La Plata group has taken these hidden gems out of the trunk of secrets and revealed them to the public., because they still retain a beautiful essence of their previous work, which makes us eagerly anticipate what their next album, to be released in 2021, will be like.
For thirty-five minutes we return to the honest tenderness of Santiago Motorizado's voice, We return to those texts that speak with profound and humble splendor of such strikingly everyday matters as love, friendship, fears, and family. We still have ordinary people in charge, who don't dress up to convince us that they feel the same things we all feel at least once in our lives, and who, despite being as ordinary as we are, They know how to express it in a splendid, overwhelming, moving way. How many times, after hearing it hundreds of times The Treasury (here in acoustic version), we didn't want to say, with broken words, to the person we love, phrases like
Sorry if I'm here again
I thought you had asked about me
I like being back here
Even though you didn't ask about me
I'm going to stay here for a while
Always take care of yourself in defeat
Until the very end.
I don't know about you, but I feel that Few contemporary tunes have this perfect tremor to describe a devastating infatuation. And to think that this is coming from a normal guy from the city of La Plata, who doesn't exactly look like Luis Miguel or Chris Isaak, but like any of us who listen to them every day. The ordinary does not distance us, not at all, from what is precious.
El Mató has had the transcendental virtue of having rescued, from the independent side of the industry, the confidence and interest of the Latin American public in Argentine rock, without the cumbersome trappings of the past. And yes, we're not going to say that The Other Dimension It's a masterpiece (after all, they're outtakes from the previous album), but after listening to pieces like The haunted house, The Dog y Looking Beyond, We have no doubt that if they had been released two years ago, we would have loved them just as much as the other songs from The O'Konor Synthesis.
