Ángel Sánchez is better known for his work as Antiguo Automata
Mexicano previously released by Background and Filtro. Seekers
Who Are Lovers is somewhere near his heart instead of the head
of this modern bipolar crooner.
-It´s a hard life (W. Oldham cover), produced by Murcof and
Cereza, You are the pride of your street and Internal, produced by
Fax, plus two bonus tracks taken from early Seekers Who Are
Lovers sessions, they conform the You are the Pride of Your Street
EP.
This is a re-modeled version of the previous limited edition CD-R
of the same name. Recorded at Mexicali, B.C. and processed there
and in Barcelona by this mexican electro wizards. You can hear the
same deep heart-in-hand singing of previous SWAL works , but
now with a better fidelty, so you can follow the lyrics and even
more, you can understand what about the feedback layering behind
the voices. Corona´s and Tamayo´s mixes enriches the original
clicky loops with some derivative noises, orchestral detonations,
acoustic and slide guitars, very respectful of the root spirit of
SWAL compositions.

Press
"The quietly magnificent opener, “It’s a hard life” featuring lyrics
by Will Oldham and mixed and arranged by Fernando Corona (aka
Murcof), impresses the most...You Are the Pride of Your Street is,
admittedly, a jarring listen at first but ultimately a rather satisfying
one"
TEXTURA (CANADA)

"...there is a definite feeling of oncoming destruction, even while
there's a dual feeling that you're inside someone else's head,
experiencing his paranoia, his stalker's sense of determination."
ERASING CLOUDS (USA)

"...this EP is one of the most compelling from-nowhere surprises
I’ve heard in a long time. We’ll be hearing a lot more from Ángel
Sánchez." (8.2)
PITCHFORKMEDIA (USA)

“Certainly, Borges’s backdrops impress; fractured, frazzled great
weatherfronts of electronics, whose rhythm is kept by the regular
click of a broken record.”
THE WIRE (UK)

Positive Coverage from:
Rockdelux (Spain), Autres Directions (France),

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