The Visitor is out on 24 June via Cómeme.
Matias Aguayo - El Sucu Tucu: New music
Having fallen out of love with minimal dance music, Matias Aguayo's decided to fill his songs with as much stuff as possible ... to brilliant effect!
Following the demise of his feted electronic duo Closer Musik in 2003, Chilean-born Matias Aguayo released two solo albums. While 2005's Are You Really Lost? showcased his love of minimal dance music and was created for the purposes of listening to intently on headphones, Aguayo soon grew bored of such introspection as outlined on his excellent 2008 single, Minimal (choice lyric: "that music got no groove, no balls"). As a continued reaction to a genre he saw as growing stale, his 2009 album Ay Ay Ay was a riot of different musical flavours, dominated almost entirely by his voice – utilising chants, squeals and some actual singing to create something much more groove-lead. Having grunted his way through Battles' 2011 single Ice Cream, this love for the more effervescent end of the dance spectrum seems to have been carried over onto his forthcoming album The Visitor. For the first single, El Sucu Tucu – premiered here – Aguayo uses his voice as an instrument, spewing out various different riffs at will, his almost wordless chants forming repetitive hooks throughout. Musically, the song manages to keep up with Aguayo's rapid-fire delivery, with beats packed tightly together as a shuffling, percussive synth sound threatens to take over at any minute.
