The first fruits of Rey Pila's time recording with Julian Casablancas are at our feet. The Mexican rock band's new album The Future Sugar features three songs co-produced by the Strokes/Voidz frontman, one being album opener "Fire Away." The track features your classic '80s synthy bleep-bloops, poppy snares, and vocals probably influenced by Casablancas himself. If Mexican New Wave wasn't already a genre, it definitely is now (I mean, just look at the album art). Frontman Diego Solorzano shared some thoughts on the track:
Working on this song with Julian and Shawn was a lot of fun. I learned a lot of new tricks... We felt this jam had something special ever since I wrote the melody. It made us move our feet right away.
Sometimes when you are working on a song, a very particular and unique feeling takes over. A sort of stream of consciousness. It doesn't come along very often, but when it does you feel like a million dollars. We all felt this way about "Fire Away."
Listen below.
The Future Sugar tracklist:
01 "Fire Away"
02 "White Night"
03 "Surveillance Camera"
04 "Alexander"
05 "False Self System"
06 "The Future Sugar"
07 "Nerds"
08 "Order Police"
09 "What A Nice Surprise"
And here's the band:
The Future Sugar is out 9/25 on Cult Records.
