Los Bitchos – Let the Festivities Begin!

If you think instrumental music makes for perfect background noise, Los Bitchos prove you to be sorely mistaken – Let The Festivities Begin! is a captivating debut, from the first magic-mushroom-laced beat until the last. An intoxicating mix of retro-futuristic surf guitar sounds and galloping drums, the record boasts the exact feeling of a Tarantino soundtrack to an all-female 70s Western.

Pista (Fresh Start) feels like grooving to music playing in a Nando's bathroom while tripping on a hallucinogen in the best possible way, transporting listeners from a series of Groundhog lockdowns into a percussion-soaked fiesta. With the album produced by Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos, it's no surprise that Las Panteras boasts a mid-song shift-up similar to Take Me Out, derailing the track from a relaxed psychedelic, lava-lamp-marvelling experience into a frenzied, cowbell-accompanied command to dance.

By the time the Lindsay Lohan-inspired closing track Lindsay Goes to Mykonos unfurls, it's easy to forget about singing altogether, until the final incoherent chant-breakdown of the track closes the album with a bang. Every second of the record is unconventional, rule-breaking, and mind-bending; the kind of album to ride a horse into sunset to. The Bitchos kick ass and you just know they enjoyed every lasso-twirling second of it.

Listen to: The Link is About to Die, I Enjoy It, Las Panteras