Mexican rockers just wanna have fun – Café Tacuba

Café Tacuba, Mexico’s premier make-the-mold-and-break-it Latin alternative band, has made a career out of surprising and often confounding people. But perhaps nothing the band has done in 15 years of recording has been as surprising as its latest release, Sino (which, in typical sly Tacuba fashion, can be translated variously as ”however” or ”yesno” or “except”).

It’s their most joyously and straight-up rock ‘n’ roll album ever. It’s got The Who, Rush, punk, prog rock, and even a brief salute to the Supremes.

Sino is a return to Tacuba’s teenage years in a Mexico City suburb, before the four band members set out on a mission to re-make rock a la Mexicana, incorporating Mexican music and themes and breaking with every rule for success in Latin pop music.”*

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