AXOLOTES MEXICANOS have been around for over ten years now. When this adventure started everyone knew for sure they were going to mark the identity of a generation of music. They are capable of bringing together in one single song so many different influences – J-Pop, manga, the most disturbing punk, horror films… They represented the voice of a small majority restless, slippery spirits hungry for life and electricity. After all this time and several singles, a Mini-LP and three albums (including this “4ever” that we are introducing here), they are a super-group. The members have all developed diverse projects that have influenced the different sounds and scenes of the national panorama. Hold on tight because there are twists and turns: CAROLINA DURANTE, CONFETI DE ODIO, TEMERARIO MARIO, Stephen Please, NO FUCKS… But above all they are what they are because they have a frontwoman as unique and inimitable as Olaya Pedrayes. All of this, together with their personal sound, makes us think of them as a giant black hole in the punk-pop space, where we let ourselves get sucked in and abandon ourselves to the unknown and unimaginable energies.

This new “4ever” only confirms what we already know. Once again, they give us those incredible trademark punk hits, more powerful than ever, with the best choruses they’ve written to date, like “La canción que escribiste”, “S ! M P”, “Amarre”, “Al amanecer” and “ROSAS y ESPINAS” (with AIKO EL GRUPO!, what an electric collaboration), where we can hear the incredible production work of Juan Pedrayes himself, with mixing by Bernardo Calvo (who recorded CAROLINA DURANTE’s EPs), Felipe Quintans (LAS LIGAS MENORES, BESTIA BEBÉ… And winner of a Latin Grammy for EL MATÓ A UN POLICÍA MOTORIZADO’s “Unas Vacaciones Raras”) and Dani Alcover (DOVER, NIÑA POLACA, LA LA LOVE YOU). What a combination; so powerful.

Because they are who they are, and because they can, they throw caution to the wind and go for broke several times. Like that epic ballad that is “Incendio”. Like that exercise in luminous jazz that sounds like a tribute to “La La Land” called “miau ♪ miau”. Like that exquisite and summery bossa nova that is “Al atardecer”. The Japanese-accented calypso pop we get on “Himawari” and the J-Pop on “Plaza del sol”. It’s amazing.

They have always done what they felt like and they have always done it better than anyone. And they still do. And we still love them. If AXOLOTES MEXICANOS didn’t exist, they would have to be invented. Although no imagination in the world is enough to think something like this could exist. That’s why it’s even more amazing that they do. 4ever.

4ever

Plaza del sol

Río Salvaje

Mala Onda

Salu2

Estanquero

Menos 100

Cara De Idiota

Sin Restricciones

Uno los Dos

El Profe

Es Mentira

Iman

Navidad

Axolotes Mexicanos is a band original from Asturias. Olaya and Stephen met in the school and decided to start a band. They completed their new group with Juan, Olaya’s twin brother. Today the group is based in Madrid and Lucas (Confeti de Odio) and Mario (Carolina Durante) joined to them.

Their sound goes from crazy punk to the most playful, demo-friendly electro-pop with energy, muscle, strength and a lot of ferocity. As gleeful and childlike as the music seems, the lyrics are decidedly less than innocent, with subject matter including revenge fantasies, relationships with extraterrestrials, and bitter loneliness.

The debut EP, Infectados was recorded and produced by Eva and Iván (Juniper Moon, Linda Guilala). It has a sound close to Alaska Y Los Pegamoides or Helen Love.

 Holi <3 followed in 2015. It shows clear tendencies toward the J-pop that came out of Tokyo’s Shibuya

In 2017 released Trececatorce, which was significantly more electronic: synthesizers taken from one of CAPSULE’s songs, harmonies and arpeggios that would make tofubeats’ heads explode, super high speed pulled from Plus-Tech Sqeezebox and punk guitars that give shape to a new collection of perfect pop songs.

The full-length Salu2 appeared in 2018. This is Capital letter POP, twenty-first century: euro-pop, disco, pop-punk… A sound close to Shampoo or Phoenix. But no, there’s autotune and twisted frequencies, we can talk also about tofubeats and Kero Kero Bonito… Capital letter POP 21st century.

Plaza del sol

Axolotes Mexicanos

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