La arana es la vida

Description

Founding member of the Gun Club, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds: (USA / In The Red Records), Kid Congo Powers is also known as the guitarist for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the Cramps. He appears as one of the most sought-after guitarists on the underground scene over the past twenty years, especially on its punk rock side. That’s for the résumé, which gives us a glimpse of the broad range of influences within which the Los Angeles kid lets loose. And indeed, that range hits you full in the face when listening to “La arana es la vida”: twenty years recycled in a completely unselfconscious way, with impeccable production that offers a thrilling panorama of a certain kind of rock from recent years: one that, while leaving room for the vocals and the songs, never quite manages to turn its back completely on either experimentation or a certain taste for retro.