Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Fabulosos Calavera (BMG)
Spanish is a beautiful language, perfect for deeply emotional literature, beautiful poetry, and songs. The time is well overdue for the mainstream success of bands who sing in Spanish. I never understood people's need to have all their music in English. Most people don't even pay much attention to lyrics anyways. Lyrics are often written mainly to make the human voice an instrument that sounds compatible with the rest of the music. People are finally realizing that with the sudden mainstream popularity of non-English singing stars like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (RIP). A thrash-ska band from Argentina, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs seem an unlikely catalyst for spearheading the Latin Rock revolution. Yet here they are, with a supercharged, seamless flow of styles, from their standard mix of metal and ska, to swing jazz, Italian spagghetti western, classic rawk hot licks and surf punk. How they give the feeling of an impending apocolypse while seeming simply accessible and entertaining to the masses is anyone's guess. But watch them pave the charts for Cafe Tacuba, King Chango and Aterciopelados. Viva la revolucion!
