{"id":15788,"date":"2020-01-07T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:12:43","slug":"estrogenuinas-terrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/estrogenuinas-terrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrogenuinas & Terrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

guiri<\/em> (spanish): a foreigner, a tourist, usually a white person<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lot to recommend self-imposed exile in Spain. The three-dollar Rioja, for one. The less-than-three-dollar healthcare, for two. But if you travel a bit farther down the list (or, my personal list) you come across the line-item that the Spanish alternative scene is goddamn bursting with creativity. I\u2019m not actively trying to disparage the U.S. music scene here\u2014Yucky Duster is cool, Soccer Mommy is great, Parquet Courts are good in like a Post-Doctoral-Student-Agitating-Outside-The-G7 way, Ezra Furman\u2019s output is consummately fun\u2014but Spanish punk and alternative in the last 5 years (perhaps due to the resurgent rise of creepy little NeoFrancoist psychopaths in the country\u2019s South) has seen a bunch of intensely worthy entries into alternative canon.<\/p>\n

To start, there\u2019s the Salamanca band Estrogenuinas (amazing name) who are a raw ball of snarling riot grrrl brilliance. Their 2017 record Sonido Chrll-Out<\/em><\/a> (“Chill-out Sound,”<\/em>\u00a0basically, like everything else about the band, the title is coated in industrial levels of irony) from Subterfuge Records is a triumph of form. Every song on the album reads like a poison pen love letter that\u2019s been strapped to a brick and lobbed through a plate-glass bank window. The headbanging feel-goodery of a song like \u201cM.A.D.R.I.Z.\u201d (an affectionate nickname for Madrid) bleed into songs like \u201cNietzsche Es Mi Fetiche\u201d (“Nietzche Is My Fetish”), \u201cOrgia En Case De Los Buendia\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(“Orgy In The House of the Rising Sun”\u2014a song that in typical form includes as part of it\u2019s chorus the sound of an orgy in progress), \u201cPuesta En Escena\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(Mise En Scene<\/em>) which is just plain good. Every track on the album in addition to being acerbically brilliant, or ridiculously irreverent, also hearkens back to a sort of 1970\u2019s punk aesthetic that\u2019s so without-fetters joyful you\u2019re nearly apt to overlook the band\u2019s systematic dismantling of everything you hold dear.<\/p>\n

Then, there\u2019s Terrier, the Madrid lo-fi garage rock band that in 2018 dropped the stunningly fully-realized album\u00a0Algo Para Romper<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(“Something To Break”). Is it markedly poppier than anything Estrogenuinas churn out? Sure, yes. Is it infectiously good? Absolutely. The album\u2019s centerpiece is the Gen-Y ennui-anthem \u201cLa Constitucion.”\u00a0<\/i>Without trafficking too much in stereotypes here, in a country where youth unemployment is at 32 percent, institutional corruption is manifestly apparent, and everybody lives with their parents, there is no way to read the shouted chorus \u201cViva La Constitucion!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0As anything other than a scorching systemic indictment, especially amid the detritus of the narrator\u2019s wrecked relationship, the furniture of dead romance. The fact that an album this smart is also this easy to listen to is a credit to the band which has been on a steady creative upswing since they dropped the single \u201cTus Ojos Son Punales\u201d (“Your Eyes Are Daggers”) in 2016. It\u2019s an absolute idiot shame that because of American rock music\u2019s monolingual bias, these bands have been unable to find a wider audience across the pond, but the fact remains they\u2019re doing some of the most interesting work in their respective genres and it\u2019s high time someone, anyone, everyone took notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot to recommend self-imposed exile in Spain. The three-dollar Rioja, for one. The less-than-three-dollar healthcare, for two. But if you travel a bit farther down the list you come across the line-item that the Spanish alternative scene is goddamn bursting with creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":15790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2171,2168,2169,2170],"class_list":["post-15788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-algo-para-romper","tag-estrogeniunas","tag-sonido-chrll-out","tag-terrier","writer-jesse-salvo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15795,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions\/15795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}