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Reissue. Los Problems' rockier album, originally released in 2014, revitalized the music scene of the Rio de la Plata (Uruguay and Argentina). A release that moves from urban intimacy to barricade epic, from ballad to punk, with a rare flow that combines different moods and paces to form an indivisible whole. The Uruguayan singer-songwriter tradition, like Fernando Cabrera and Eduardo Darnauchans, is a standing reference in this work. If the first album by Los Problems, Malditos Banquetes (2007), already introduced Eté as a unique character with a fierce energy and sound, and Vil (2011) is proof of his skills as a hitmaker that should be mainstream in a more sane world, El Éxodo appears as best of both worlds. It's an album that was (and is) in a way, an intimate catharsis during a period of changes, expressed throughout songs with lyrical finesse that evoke Tabárez's obsessions (from basketball to Steinbeck's work or the religious overtones of The Whobut with Uruguayan poetic identity of Darnauchans, Zitarrosa, Fernando Cabrera -- all recurrent references in his work and interviews). Finesse aside, the album is also considered a shamelessly charged-in rock piece, that started to be considered, both locally as internationally, like a zombie genre, incapable of expressing anything relevant in these present times. An album that emerged from a personal crisis, climbing in the opposite direction of the intimate and light path of the indie genre, to shout and rasp, even in the single that broke through, "Jordan", paradoxically made famous on that same indie audience, with a mix of post-teenage desolation, pop melodies, and some Montevidean imagery, this track helped Eté Y Los Problems and El Éxodo album to establish themselves as one of the last standing groups of Rioplatense rock scene. Electric blue vinyl.
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