El Guincho - Pop Negro
Pop Negro, El Guincho’s second full album and follow-up to 2007’s celebrated Alegranza, comes swiftly on the heels of the Piratas de Sudamerica EP released in July. It’s quite a bewitching mix of tropicalia and dance music with a heavy dose of percussion particularly evident on album opener Bombay (which also has a brilliantly odd video to accompany it and mentions of a bizarre looking movie). Pop Negro was recorded in Berlin and throughout Spain and marks a more thorough realisation of El Guincho’s distinctive style. It’s also really, really good.
