Guillermine

We’ve mentioned several times that we mean our singles club to be a way to discover new bands, from all over the world but also from Spain. During the last years an explosion of new young pop outfits has been very well documented by our label, but every new week there’s a new demo, new songs, new pop sensations. Some of these bands are too amateur to make a good album, therefore single is the perfect format to enjoy these new talents. And if the singles are in colour vinyl, then much better!!!

GUILLERMINE is one of those brand new bands. A twopiece from Murcia (Spanish east coast) formed by Germán and Marcial which mix guitars and casiotones with lo-fi punk-pop attitude, with some degree of frenzy madness that makes their music even more personal.

Their debut single is full of energy, good humour and pop effervescence. Qualities which are supposed to be found in any debut, and here we can trace them in the shape of superlative, hypercatchy melodies.

“Sol” (“Sun”) is GUILLERMINE’s unquestionable hit. Over a bouncy casiotone background the Spanish twosome offer us one of the most optimist pop melodies in the last months. Pure lo-fi punk-pop in which the lack of better equipment or tecnique is fully compensated by tons of emotion and honesty impossible to find in more “professional” recordings. This song is as luminous and warm as its title promises.

“Mil cosas” (“Many things”) feature some percussive chimes that remind the best early eighties disco-techno pop. It presents the quietest moods of GUILLERMINE, though peace doesn’t last for too long: “El interruptor maldito” (“The doomed switch”) is waiting for us in the flip, a complete pop delirium with a weird French spoken part in it.

Even faster is “John Cale”, which doesn’t mean to pay homage to the eccentric ex VELVET UNDERGROUND but to criticize the lack of ideas and talent of many new Spanish bands. They mention HELLO CUCA, a brilliant punk band from Murcia.

To end with, there’s a cover version of one of the best songs by LE MANS, one of the most famous Elefant bands, sadly split in 1998. The song’s “Perezosa y tonta” from their second album “Entresemana”. Though GUILLERMINE substitute the fragility of the original for a much more punk-pop treatment.