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DOWNLOAD: Extraperlo - Cavalcade + Banadores

Posted 7/17/2009 9:24 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: tropical, pop, club, electronic, funk

Is it worth apologising for the poor quality of that photo? Does it offend your eyes? I hope for your sake's you're not so prude, but either way Extraperlo probably aren't worrying too much. The quartet's sound is a remarkably carefree one, something that chimes with my own memories of their home city in late spring, early summer. Barcelona's a beautiful place and "Cavalcade" is a beautiful song, primary colour synths gliding overhead like crop dusting planes spiked with colourful smoke, the red and yellow of the Catalan flag pressing against clear, blue skies. Less pretentiously, vocalist Borja Rosal sounds oddly like Joe Strummer, while funk guitars strut and settle into glimmering patterns reminiscent of Orchestra Harlow's "Horsin' Up" or oddly, again, Wild Beasts or Orange Juice. Extraperlo have been compared to El Guincho but while that was perhaps inevitable given their hometown and an affiliation with the same label (the great Discoteca Oceano) that brought El Guincho's music to the world, this band's tropicalia seems to lurk within the track without ever making itself explicitly known, understated, wandering and - yes - carefree.

Sounds Like: Air France, Wild Beasts, The Clash

Extraperlo - Cavalcade

Extraperlo - Banadores

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