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Pendejo Release New Album Atacames

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 25th, 2014 by JJ Koczan

What I like about the video for Pendejo‘s “Dos” at the bottom of this post is that when the main character makes a robot, first of all, he gives it long hair, and second, they totally hang out. There’s no immediate animosity, it’s just some weirdo mad scientist who wants to bro down so he builds a brobot with which to do so. They go get drinks. It’s not until they can’t decide who gets the last beer that machine and man collide in a battle that many would say was inevitable anyway. It’s a cool clip, and the psyched-out trumpet-as-guitar adds an individual touch to the Amsterdam-based four-piece’s otherwise definitively stoner sound.

I suppose I got sidetracked from the original news, which is that Pendejo‘s new album, Atacames — on which “Dos” appears — is released as of today, but it’s all feeding into my recent theory that nobody reads the stuff on top of the PR wire whathaveyou so I can basically say anything I want to up here. To a point, anyhow.

Here’s the news for your blues:

Pendejo Atacames Out Today

¡PENDEJO! is a four-piece heavy rock band from the Netherlands, founded by two cousins with a history in Latin America. Digging into their latino roots, El Pastuso and Jaap ‘Monchito’ Melman started blending heavy riffage, pounding drums, right-in-your-face lyrics in urban Spanish about the weirdest stories in life, and to top it all off, a screaming trumpet. Sounds pendejo, right?

‘Cantos a la Vida’ (2010), the band’s first full length album, was firstly released in Spain and got stunningly positive reviews there. Their music has been described as heavy, addictive, rough and grooving, or as a Spanish critic so eloquently put it: “Heavy rock in Spanish with balls the size of Danny de Vito”. Having played mostly in the underground scene throughout Europe and Latin America – and sharing stages with influential heavyweights like Fu Manchu and Karma to Burn – the band puts on a show for anyone who is not afraid to be grabbed by the cojones and to be thrown into a spicy puddle of chile con carne.

¡PENDEJO! recorded its second full-length album ‘ATACAMES’ with producer Pieter Kloos in The Void Studio in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Kloos, who previously worked with bands like Motorpsycho, Barkmarket and Ween, and with Dutch heavy acts like Peter Pan Speedrock and 35007, convinced the band to record their album the old fashioned way, recording most of the material live. This resulted in a daring album containing 10 songs ranging from heavy to lighthearted, and from melodramatic to outright aggressive.

¡PENDEJO! are:
El Pastuso – Vocals, Trumpet
Jaap ‘Monchito’ Melman (Bitcho, ex-Dreadlock Pussy, ex-Revamp) – Guitar
Stef ‘El Rojo’ Gubbels – Bass, Backing Vocals
Jos ‘Pepellín’ Roosen – (ex-Dreadlock Pussy, ex-Viberider) – Drums

www.pendejoband.com
www.facebook.com/pendejoband

Pendejo, “Dos” official video

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