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Album Review: Doctor Explosion – Superioridad Moral<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the summer, Kate Bush and Metallica experienced a surge of re-interest in their work upon entering the coveted cross-generational limelight through prime music placements in Season 4 of\u00a0Stranger Things<\/em>. “Running Up That Hill” Spotify streams surged 9,000% the week after episode four’s airing, while the season four finale’s “Master of Puppets” feature posted into Spotify\u2019s Top 50 Global Charts and became iTunes most downloaded rock track.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you weren’t aware of this, commend yourself because the news was inescapable throughout the music press and sparked conversations about impacting tastemakers for artist discovery among younger generations.\u00a0Kate Bush and Metallica are already\u00a0very well<\/em> established by their names alone due to years of juggernaut-level marketing strategies concocted by their management and record labels, an array of global press, and relentless touring (for Metallica) and performance reputations. These placements are just another add-on to their illustrious careers; pop culture won’t forget these two anytime soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If something like this were to occur with an identical group who’ve been around for just as long as these two but never received this extraordinary level of marketing and promotional support, a\u00a0Stranger Things<\/em>\u00a0placement would be much more significant for the chosen artist. Metallica wasn’t the only group happening in the Bay Area in 1986. Imagine the impact Eddie Munson’s scene would have on Death Angel’s career if he performed the song “The Ultra-Violence” to distract the show\u2019s antagonist, Vecna. They, too, were a player in the Bay Area 180s thrash scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take another example of a music scene’s overlooked contributors on an exponential level, the Spanish underground rock n\u2019 roll world. Considering technology over the years, select players in the country’s current rock scene have benefitted from healthy exposure to a new generation of fans through digital distribution and international press covering Madrid-based groups like Hinds, The Parrots, and Andualusia’s own Guadalupe Plata. For this tech-savvy generation, these three groups could be the face of what\u2019s happening in Spain’s rock n’ roll world for all we know. However, what about back before times of immediate information?\u00a0A healthy independent music scene in Spain has existed for a long time. Preceding artists like Doctor Explosion are a part of laying its foundation and have been overlooked throughout the years by the outside press.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctor Explosion originated\u00a0in a different era when information didn’t flow at the current rate. The notable names in Madrid’s independent rock scene then were the vulgar n’ un-politically correct punk n’ rollers, The Pleasure Fuckers, and the garage-influenced Sex Museum. Doctor Explosion isn’t from Spain’s capital; they come from the seaside Asturian city,\u00a0Gij\u00f3n.\u00a0Gij\u00f3n\u00a0is a town up along the country\u2019s northwestern, which gained some national press attention in the 1990s for becoming a hotbed for artists from the area whom the Spanish press tagged their music as the “Xix\u00f3n\u00a0Sound.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

National press aside, Doctor Explosion\u00a0is barely mentioned or acknowledged in the English-speaking media. This group is heavily influenced by the postwar American garage movement and the British Invasion.\u00a0They are a noteworthy player in the development of Spain’s underground rock n’ roll world due to a live reputation of occasional nudity and togas to accompany their throwback 60s psych\/garage sound. The band’s first seven records are consistent with this repetitive musical formula to a point of wondering whether Doctor Explosion is just a one-trick pony. Superioridad Moral<\/em>, the band’s first album in 11 years, shows they’re comfortable straying a bit from their usual sound but careful not to stray too much as to alienate their fanbase.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which makes\u00a0Superioridad Moral\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0first two tracks interesting. The lead-off “Insatisfacci\u00f3n” shows the band entering neo-psychedelic-rock territory from the robotic, rolling riffs that sound more tense than groove-oriented. Speaking with their singer\/guitarist,\u00a0Jorge Mu\u00f1oz-Cobo Gonzalez\u00a0(or his alias Jorge Explosion) over email, he reveals that the song’s tension is derived from the pressure he felt after giving himself only 24 hours to write the song’s lyrics and music from scratch then engineer the recording to the final product. His goal for the exercise was to capture a feeling of the time-increased urgency humans receive when we’re setting to accomplish something under severe resource constraints with a looming deadline. The second track is a complete 180 in both feels and overall historical direction for the band with “Vestir De Mujer”‘s soft-sided singer-songwriter feel coupled with Explosion\u2019s harmonizing vocals and his melody-tinged guitar work. The song’s lyrics are inspired by Explosion\u2019s observations of drag queen performances and the stigmas they must face from repressing this part of themselves from the overall public eye. Both are the main tracks that stand out from\u00a0Superioridad Moral\u00a0<\/em>because no other Doctor Explosion song in their catalog sounds like these two.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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