Video: Philipina Bitch - "Aplasta Tu Generación" (Live Acoustic)

Philipina Bitch released their album Vecindad Maldita early this year, which we described as “an ethereal mindset and a thriving experience.” I still get goose bumps every time I listen to "Aplasta Tu Generación." It’s an increasing rush of the rock&roll culture, squashing our generation is the true idealism of rebellion. Folks, it’s still this year’s anti-anthem. Here is a thrilling live acoustic video of the band rocking some serious strings. This is definitely for those of us who don’t fully get the Rodrigo y Gabriela hype. “Esta es tu generacion, de miedo, angustia y dolor, es lo que tu construiste rezandole a tu dios.” The band is currently promoting their new EP titled Eine Langsame Abend through Discos Tue Tue, we can’t wait to hear it.

♫♫♫ "Aplasta Tu Generación"

Vecindad Maldita, Philipina Bitch

Vecindad Maldita. Philipina Bitch
Discos Tue Tue, Chile
Rating: 79
By Carlos Reyes

Somewhere along the very thin line of psychedelic rock and an eruption, we find the sounds of Philipina Bitch; the most induced, serious and combusting band in the recent boom of Chilean pop. It’s an ethereal mindset and a thriving experience, perhaps too stiffly on its procedure but it’s a well thought, a well executed album on measure. Let me start by saying “Aplasta tu generación ” is one hell of a good song, its nonstop rush and eventual collapse make up a glorifying anti-anthem, it disjoints generational thought and even gimmicks from it. In a sort of “here you have your goddamn generation, now squash it”, the song becomes a hymn of its own.

Vecindad Maldita is the duo’s sophomore album, a brave one considering how compulsive it is and how well it manages to get away with it. See, much of the album’s potential and success lays in its anti-hero posture; that sort of disinterest and disjointed riffs and harmonies and their weird, sometimes fantastic encounter with vocals. In this way, Philipina Bitch accomplishes to sound ferocious without valve or over sweat, it’s nice to see a band with this depth on its form that actually sounds like a rock band. Without stepping on eclecticism, the band finds folksy rock and approaches it as if it was experimenting with the oddest of sounds. “Polera de Verano” is approached in such a way that it almost sounds naïf, while “No Es Mentira” (El Sauce) was probably the ‘standard’ form and ended up in Molotov’s territory.

Philipina Bitch is in a way, an exhausted band; but they make it work as that exhaustion is in tune with the dark exuberance of their harmonies and witty lyrics. The promotional single “Seis Arriba” shows a band that rejects guidelines, like No Age or Abe Vigoda, they hook and pledge for mood that sum up right quick and don’t necessarily end but find a way to escape through the crowded musical scope. They even handle jazzy rock in “Tan rapido como Juan”, which is actually a Tango, a very smoky one. The last two tracks return to those great bursts of “Aplasta tu generación”, but sounding more like The Smith Westerns and White Denim. With 17 songs, some pieces redeem to fill up space, not necessarily their purpose but it’s quite easy to place them there and not feel any guilty for doing so. It might not be the album that maps out their rationale in music, but it pushes them forward in extraordinary ways.

♫♫♫ "Aplasta tu generación"
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Video: Philipina Bitch - "Seis Arriba"

There’s a slight possibility that we’ll be making another (maybe last) compilation soon, while we decide if this site will go on to next year, and if you’ll be able to download another one of our seriously great releases, there’s a bunch of great stuff hitting our mail. Releasing stuff on December is never a good idea (unless you got a Christmas carols album), if you’re album is too small to make an impression chances are music bloggers and the general public will be too distracted by family or Best of the Year lists. Just in case we don’t get to review your album before the year ends, know that we’ll push it a few weeks over into the next year and see it as a 2010 album.

All this behind the curtain talk deals with Philipina Bitch, a very cool Chilean band that’s getting popular among our staff (along with Monterrey’s White Ninja and Mentira Mentira). We’ve set up one of their songs for an upcoming feature and the album titled Vecindad Maldita is traveling our way already. For the meantime, they released one of our favorite music videos of the year. “Seis Arriba” is exhilarating and the video is a visual knockout, nothing short than a grandiose spell of haphazardness.