Los Candidatos are an old school punk band from Bogotá, Colombia who list amongst their influences the likes of Ramones, Riverdales, Social Distortion, Bad Religion etc... They line up with Mario Parra (Vocals), Jairo Muñoz (Guitar), Geovanni Parra (Drums) and Jaime Lara (Bass). Last November they released an album titled Premoniciones and it's recently been picked up by that bastion of good taste Matt Bennett for his Outloud! Records label. It's available on vinyl, cd and digital download : https://outloudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/premoniciones
The tag line for the album is "13 tracks of Occult-Fueled Columbian pop punk!" and whilst, like with yesterday's update, I'm not sure what the hell they're singing about I'm still having fun listening. Cretina translates into English as idiot (though I'd just about worked that out before checking!) and it's a rollicking good tune. Un Extraño (A Stranger) is another Ramonescore style winner whilst Obituario (Obituary) slows things down a little but is a catchy singalong.
The song I'm featuring today however is the closing track on the album. A bright and breezy pop punk earworm, it's titled Tormenta Nuclear (Sha-La-La)...
Grand band from Bogota! Great classic old punk rock! Touredwith them great lads!
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