{"title":"Sei Still","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"el-refugio","title":"El Refugio","description":"\u003cp\u003eMexican five-piece Sei Still return with their second album \u003ci\u003eEl Refugio\u003c\/i\u003e via London’s Fuzz Club Records. The follow-up to their 2020 self-titled debut album marks a number of changes for the band. Not only have they upped sticks and moved from Mexico City to Berlin, but their sound has undergone a process of evolution too. Where the debut LP was an exercise in mesmerising Krautrock channeling the likes of Neu! and Can, \u003ci\u003eEl Refugio\u003c\/i\u003e keeps hold of that motorik pulse but trades the debut’s more expansive and hypnotic tendencies for a collection of dark, wiry post-punk vignettes. The album is a more skeletal effort than its predecessor but packs a greater punch precisely because of that; the songs are shorter and unapologetically to-the-point, brimming with a tension and anguish that makes \u003ci\u003eEl Refugio\u003c\/i\u003e a deeply affecting listen. “The biggest influence on this record was the fact that our personal lives had a radical change and we felt the need to do something different, to dig deeper into the possibilities of what the band was about. We never wanted to make the same record twice. The songs allude to childhood, dreams, desire, loneliness, paranoia and hope. A longing for a different reality that breaks the monotony of daily life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl Refugio\u003c\/i\u003e is still driven by the taut, propulsive rhythm sections of their earlier work – see the driving motorik post-punk of ‘Extrarradio’, ‘Me Persigue’ and ‘Exilio’, or the death disco grooves of ‘Solsticio’ – but the surrounding instrumentation owes far more to 70s punk and new wave than any kosmische travellers. Whilst melodic bass lines propel the music in a perpetual forward motion, guitars flicker from angular and razor-sharp to shimmering and forlorn, peppered by the ambient whirr of synths that oscillate subtly in the background throughout. All the while Lucas Martín’s monotonous sprechgesang vocal (delivered in Spanish throughout) give the tracks a foreboding and ghostly allure. The band still have their hypnotic moments, mind. On slow-burning moments like ‘Soldados Caidos’ and ‘El Peso De La Piel’ Sei Still trade in a desolate, mournful goth-rock and the ethereal title-track \u003ci\u003eEl Refugio\u003c\/i\u003e is a shoegaze-indebted comedown that brings the album to a hauntingly beautiful close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fuzz Club","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50479280095563,"sku":"1132750","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50479279866187,"sku":"1143404","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d2f4ab22-3fd9-4d31-b3c7-daa7d302c6dc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727505778"},{"product_id":"fuzz-club-session","title":"Fuzz Club Session","description":"\u003cp\u003eArriving right off the back of their second album \u003ci\u003eEl Refugio\u003c\/i\u003e which was released in November 2021 via Fuzz Club Records, Mexican post-punk\/krautrock group Sei Still are back with a 'Fuzz Club Session' LP that's due out January 21st 2022. Having upped sticks from Mexico City to Berlin, Sei Still's Fuzz Club Session was recorded live at Berlin's Monoton Studio back in October 2020 and is comprised of five tracks from the newly-released \u003ci\u003eEl Refugio\u003c\/i\u003e LP: (\u003ci\u003eEsperando, Hombre Animal, Las Puertas De La Noche, Me Persigue \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Se Asoma el Sol - \u003c\/i\u003elater\u003ci\u003e Solsticio). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl Refugio \u003c\/i\u003eand the session LP set to be released in support capture a new era for Sei Still. The expansive Krautrock jams heard on their 2020 self-titled debut have evolved into a dark, motorik post-punk sound that owes far more to 70s punk, goth-rock and Spanish New Wave than any kosmische travellers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fuzz Club","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50505044590923,"sku":"1140249","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a6d3e827-740d-4c3d-b41b-e79ce8159f41_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727812632"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/sei-still.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}