Mengers Post “Pantitlán” Video
The recently-issued single by Mexico City heavy psych rockers Mengers is the third the three-piece have put out in 2020, and it comes preceded by May’s Tiempos Suicidas / No Hay Futuro and March’s Celebra. What distinguishes Pantitlán as a release from those two- and one-track outings is the lack of mention of the full-length from which it might come. That album would be the second for Mengers behind last year’s I, and it’s been given the title Golly and set for release through the revived imprint Devil in the Woods. Release date unsure, like, well, everything else.
“Pantitlán” is named for a metro station on the Mexico City subway system, and the portrayal of the commuter rail makes up the video itself with due comings, goings and in-betweens. All this motion is accompanied that by of the song, which is more ethereal perhaps in its space-ready fuzz, blown out and set to a classic kind of push given further momentum by the energy with which it’s issued. And oh, the tone. And oh, the echoes. Psychedelic immersion meets with sun-shining push, languid and flowing, but not shooting for graceful so much as spacious and getting there easy, effects continuing to spread in airy guitar even as the song itself has moved onto the next measure.
They cross the halfway mark of “Pantitlán” teasing heavier riffery, and you don’t throw that in at all if it’s not going to return. It does, as lead-in for a down-the-tracks jam that uses consistency in the snare to evoke the feeling of a train en route, chugging forward on its appointed path. “Pantitlán” is ultimately more fluid and less bound to a set of rails than one thinks of trains being — they seem ready to wander in terms of sound — but the vibe in the song is right-on “whatever, just go with it,” and the argument it makes in that regard is not one against which I’m likely to fight. So yeah, go with it.
And when you’re done going with “Pantitlán,” go with the rest of the stuff on their Bandcamp and get yourself stoked up for Golly, about which I’ll hope to have more info in the coming days/weeks/whenever.
Enjoy the video:
Mengers, “Pantitlán” official video
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3dbKFHK
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2GHEvmT
YouTube: https://youtu.be/tBQsaLI09Js
Video por Pablo Calderón @perrolocorocanrolero666
Producida por Hugo Quezada Monroy en Progreso Nacional, Col. San Rafael CDMX.
Masterizada por Harris Newman en Grey Market Mastering, Montreal CA.
Mengers
Guitarra, Voz: Carlos Calderón Ángeles
Bajo: Mauricio Daniel Suárez Hernández
Batería: Pablo Arturo Calderón Ángeles
Sintetizadores: Hugo Quezada Monroy
