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Artist:	LOS LLAMARADA
Title:	Gone Gone Cold
Label:	S.S. RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	SS 055LP

"Gone Gone Cold marks Los Llamarada's third and final album. Since their first album on S.S., The Exploding Now!, Llamarada has made some of the most striking psychedelic punk of the last decade. In the spirit of Red Crayola and 13th Floor Elevators, Llamarada approach to psych is devoid of rules, trends, or convention. Like Mars, they feel their way through sound, finding songs in the playing. However, while The Exploding Now! and their second album, Take the Sky, reflect the band's (then) excitement with their future and possibility, Gone Gone Cold looks at present day Mexico and it's never-ending drug war. On Gone Gone Cold, fans of Los Llamarada will hear their oft-noted claustrophobic sound, but the songs a less settled than before. Confusion trumps structure, until a riff or pulse builds in intensity and the song enters into panic. Or a song starts at a panicked pace and unravels into a single phrase. There still is the subverted surf-guitar and male/female chant/vocals, but the drums are stronger and keyboards more insistent -- sounds desperate for a way out."

Artist:	LOS LLAMARADA
Title:	The Restless Night
Label:	S.S. RECORDS
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	SS 057EP

"To start, Llamarada gives us their jump on 'Rezo Por Voz', a classic by Argentinian rock legends Luis Alberto Spinetta and Charly Garcia. In the Llamarada way, what you hear of 'Rezo Por Voz' in 'The Restless Light' are hints and dustings of the original. This is no straight cover, but a psych punk romp of claustrophobic proportions. Flip the single over and we have 'A Current,' an original taut and moody, a guitar drones spaghetti western style over a tense plain. Drop this into the opening scene in El Topo and I wouldn't complain. Cover art by Herla Alarcon. 500 pressed."

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