But their “lightness” is like Milan Kundera’s: a sense of freedom that’s not without depth. In refusing to take themselves seriously, Plastilina Mosh run the risk of the listener not taking them seriously either. Track 10 is a bass-guitar-led instrumental overlaid with what sounds like a drum cadence that explains its title, “San Diego Chargers.” These songs are listener-friendly but deeply strange, hinting at Rosso’s classical and avant-garde history. Here’s what you get: a track that starts out strutting like a rock Daft Punk, with computerized, Frampton-like vocals, then mutates into a series of hypnotic synth arpeggios, evoking Boards of Canada, unexpectedly melancholy. In a sense, the eclecticism serves to break down your defenses, and by track 8, “Going to Mars Bolton,” the listener isn’t sure what to expect. Another costume change for Track 4, “Let U Know,” where they become the Hives, banging out garage-rock chords. They name-drop Paris Hilton, evoking Brazilians CSS, whose invocation of the hotel heiress was so deadpan Ms. Things get even less serious from there: on Track 3, a crowd chants “Everybody wants to go to my party,” an LCD Soundsystem-like chant over a groovy retro-Fatboy Slim beat. Oddly enough, the slightly awkward English lyrics actually work, giving the track a kind of winking distance. But I should have been thinking of them as the Mexican Beck: the LA singer helped sign P-Mosh back in 1998, and it’s his genre-hopping career that the duo’s most resembles.Īll U Need is Mosh kicks off new wave-style with “Toll Free,” an angular take on Franz Ferdinand-esque dance-rock. P-Mosh” and “Millionaire,” have a bouncy avant-hip-hop sound, and I always kind of thought of them as the Mexican Beastie Boys. For All U Need is Mosh, the duo’s first album of new material in five years, they’ve reinvented themselves again, with strange, intriguing results. It’s worked, but it can be a little disorienting. We are a project that amuses us and we take this lightly, and somehow it’s worked. In a recent interview, multi-instrumentalist Alejandro Rosso said they didn’t think of P-Mosh as a “career”:Īt this point, if you think about it, most of the groups that started with our generation, like Molotov, Control Machete, Zurdok, they’re no longer here, and we go on with the same idea, that is to not take everything so seriously, we do not believe that we are the truth nor are we an innovative group. But they sure don’t take themselves very seriously. When is a band not a band? Okay, the bio says Plastilina Mosh is a duo from Monterrey, Mexico, and they have albums and some hit singles just like other bands. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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