Bruxismo en la familia by El Café Atómico

For fans of Molchat Doma, Cime, Deafheaven, krautrock, and the anxious preparation for the worst case scenario, Bruxismo en la familia by El Café Atómico conducts horrific slasher tales through the wiring of their unique, hypnotic brand of post punk. A mix of influences from the traditional folk music of the band’s home country of Venezuela and a smattering of sounds from blues, metal, and punk constructs a hauntingly inviting yet deeply spacy environment. From here, distant vocals tell horror stories of outlandish, almost physically impossible crimes, a mental exercise in preparation of impending chaos which threatens one’s community, family, and spirit. At first, these tales appear as distant thought experiments, but as the band moves into a depressingly prescient near-future prediction of an impending invasion from the United States, these tales no longer feel so impossible. Suddenly, the album turns on a dime into a moral documentary of the disgusting violence of war, the likes of which we in the colonial core have a moral duty to prevent at all costs.