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Tonzonen Records · 19 June 2026

The sleeve warns you before a note sounds: an art-nouveau bird run through by an arrow, standing on a thicket of thorns with a handful of gold in its claws. The alicanto is the bird of Chilean mythology that led miners to the seams of silver and gold and punished anybody who followed it too eagerly. “Kiss”, four minutes flat, opens on a stomping beat and a heavily reverbed voice that part sings and part narrates, with bursts of horns over a thick riff. Taihr have brought the horns in, which 2024’s “Cambio” did not have, and pulled the band towards funk and jazz without ever taking it fully out of indie.

“Pisco Fury”, four oh five, shifts between dream pop and a disco pulse and takes its name from the Chilean spirit. “Playing Cards”, five fifty-two, switches from Spanish to English inside the same song and turns to seven-eight in its second half. “Skeleton Hoofs”, five forty-five, is the most Latin of the seven. Génesis Trinidad Gálvez Jaramillo sings, and the septet lives in Cologne with German and Chilean musicians.

Each of the seven songs was written by a different member of the band, one apiece, and the record sounds exactly like that: seven neatly finished pieces that pass no idea to one another. That the second half is darker and more complex than the first comes from the running order rather than from any development. Thirty-four minutes and fifty-six seconds, seven tracks, the band’s second album and their first for Tonzonen Records, on vinyl, CD and digital since 19 June.

Rating: 7.0/10

Text by Guillem Cardós