In January, legendary Spanish band Los Planetas released their tenth studio album Las canciones del agua. They did it through their own music label, El Ejército Rojo, a self-production that is unusual among prestigious bands.

They will present it in a long awaited show at Razzmatazz in Barcelona on May 27. Then, they will continue to other cities like Madrid, Oviedo, Valencia, Pontevedra, Granada and Malaga.

The group took special care in the format of their new album. In addition to the digital version and the vinyl, they also released an exclusive 12-inch vinyl edition, which will have a numbered print run of 2,000 copies — 180-gram transparent vinyl with an open binder — and drawings by artist Javier Aramburu.

The five-piece band from Granada, who began their career in 1990 and have positioned themselves as one of the big names of indie and pop in Spain, already released songs "El Rey de España," "El Denigacionista," and “Antiplanetism” from the album.

All are a continuation of their style, marked by clean guitars, solemn, deep voices, and punctual sound effects that give a certain dose of modernity.

 

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They define themselves as a band with “30 years of brotherhood and substance, unknown pleasures, illumination, violence and inner life, sounds of gold, power, corruption and lies, harm and joy. A rock group from a small town in the south of a small country on a small planet in the middle of the unfathomable. Nothing more and nothing less."

After almost three decades in the business, with 10 albums, more than 40 singles and three compilations, Los Planetas show that they know how to keep that particular formula of composing and defining the world in which we live. They're always critical, sharp, and adapted to our times.

Among the nine songs that make up the album, the adaptation of "El manantial" stands out, a poem by Federico García Lorca that defining the harmony between human beings and nature, transformed by the Andalusians into a tremendous song with which they open the album.

Although five years have passed since the release of Zona Temporalmente Autónoma (2017), but they didn’t stop making music. In 2019, they merged with Niño de Elche to launch the project Fuerza Nueva (2019), and in the Summer of 2020, they released the song "La nueva normalidad," which narrates the riots in the U.S. after the murder of George Floyd. It also anticipates the assault on Capitol Hill after Joe Biden's presidential election victory.

The new album is divided into two parts: one focuses on their beloved Granada, and the other opens up to the world. It's an album that pays tribute to their roots and sounds, but also looks to the future with fresh new sounds.