¡Pendejo! Release Toma EP Today Featuring Covers and Live Tracks
One would expect no less of ¡Pendejo! that if they were going to do a thing at all, they would go big. Covers? Why not? How about Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath? Yeah, that’ll do nicely. Today marks the release date of Toma, a kind of double-EP released with four covers — including “Wrathchild” and “The Wizard” by the legends noted above, as well as the theme from the tv show Narcos, which I’ve never seen I think mostly because it’s not Star Trek and a take on ’70s pop star Mari Trini for good measure — and four live tracks on a 12″ that was met with the ubiquitous vinyl delays. They note a six-month push in the press release below. I’m hearing it’s up to eight now. If anybody wants to open a pressing plant just for independent releases and labels, hit me up.
¡Pendejo! have live dates in September, though I’m not sure what the Euro lockdown situation will be by then, considering that’s all of a week away and too far in the future to predict, but you can stream Toma below and it’s available physically now, the band having already put in the wait.
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¡PENDEJO! releases Toma on August 26th
Dutch rockers ¡Pendejo! launch Toma, an album featuring four covers: Iron Maiden’s Wrathchild, The Wizard from Black Sabbath, Narcos theme Tuyo, and Mari Trini’s hit from the seventies, Déjame. The original plan was to release an EP with just covers, but the band decided to add four live songs, recorded previously. Frontman El Pastuso explains:
“We wanted to do a covers-only EP with six songs, but in the end we thought only four were good enough. And an EP with only four covers on it just seamed a bit meager to us, especially if you want to put it on vinyl too. We remembered having those live recordings from our album release party of Sin Vergüenza, which we never gave much attention until then. Anyway, we thought it would be cool to add one or two live tracks, but ended up choosing four. So yeah, what to call Toma? It wasn’t meant as a full length album, and it isn’t. I guess it ended up being a EP-plus or something like that.”
The band already released three covers from Toma digitally in 2020, but couldn’t launch the album sooner than now as a result of long waiting lines at all vinyl production factories.
“Production times are crazy now. Sixteen weeks, twenty weeks, some even make you wait half a year for your vinyls. I heard one of the only two remaining lacquer plants bunt down, causing all the delay. Or maybe everyone got creative during lock-down? I don’t know, but in the end the timing isn’t that bad, just in time before we hit the road again with some really cool shows in Holland in September.”
Toma will be available from August 26th on CD and on a limited edition of black and of transparent vinyl.
Tracklisting:
1. Wrathchild
2. Tuyo
3. El Mago
4. Déjame
5. Flotadores (en vivo)
6. Dos (en vivo)
7. Bulla (en vivo)
8. Hacia La Luz (en vivo)
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