Manigote Cualquiera by Demencia Infantil

There’s something so eerily beautiful about radio waves, the fact that music, voices, stories, advertisements, and sermons zip through the air around us, waiting for us to tune in. Mexico City experimentalists Demencia Infantil capture an unusual sort of radio wave on their new record Manigote Cualquiera, tuning into frequencies more spiritual than electromagnetic. An absurd, jazzy, dark, noisy sound annihilates the artist’s ego, trading specific, pointed voice for the aimless emanation of energy. As we the listener struggle to assemble meaning from this jagged, unorganized emotion, we struggle for agency, tasked with the role of puppet master while forced into subservience by a downpour of aesthetic darkness. In reality, this album’s cursed, angular dances, lost, atmospheric interludes, and twisted, unrecognizable rock n roll originates from outside both ourselves and the artist, a pure broadcast of an omnipresent yet deeply hidden signal. After a lifetime of watching the results of these spiritual frequencies at work in our world, to hear them directly elicits an indescribable ecstatic horror, an epiphany that sets us in tune with the discordant darkness outside.