By José Gandue @Gandour Moplo archive photos
I can't imagine their concerts. If they're as short as their new album, Moplo He could be breaking a Guinness World Record. The longest track on his new album, Constant mental state, called Jeans factory, not a minute and twenty-eight seconds have passed. Its sound, moreover, could be considered Lo-fi, And I'm sure that if they had recorded in the sixties, they would have been content with monophonic techniques. This group definitely doesn't complicate things and channels its art in the form of small snippets that accelerate in short, very short, periods., the little piece of punk that survives in our hearts.
This Chilean trio, the latest discovery from the already classic independent label Algo Records, offers the audience tiny but interesting episodes that sound like electroshocks, high-speed bursts that seem like accelerated treatments against stress and lethargy made in a Santiago garage. What Moplo has created, which can be listened to several times in a single hour, is summarized in tunes of two or three phrases that look like anarchist advertising slogans and that together, organized as they are in the list of the digital platforms, sound like the passage of a train on a roller coaster that always seems about to derail, but that arrives firmly at the end of the journey. Constant state of mind, Take it this way, kind reader, it's like eleven shots of teenage adrenaline., that are presented to contradict all the resonant sophistication of today's recordings and confirm that musical rebellion can be presented in short bursts and still produce enough damage and excitement in the disaffected listener who seeks new alternatives to today's tedium.