Pez - Rock Nacional (2016)

Faced with a band size and trajectory Fish (huge, historic, foundational), few new words that remain to be said. Therefore, it is difficult encouraged with a review that does justice to the last studio album of the band, a tribute to the most innovative and committed in recent decades genre. The grouping of Ariel Minimal (only remaining founder of Fish, now, thanks to the incorporation of Juan Ravioli, is a quartet member) however encouraged to keep doing new things.

Already in an interview, he had said Minimal National Rock is perhaps not the album that sounds like rock bands more Fish, which opens an interesting debate. What is ultimately the national rock? A genre with its own sound, or just a geotag? The truth is that, for everyone who hears the term, a similar auditory image is formed. Over the years, such is the identity that has been built around the rock. Therefore, it is curious but successful choice of name. Fish may not be the benchmark for what one imagines when they think national rock, but that does not mean it can be one of the undisputed members of his pantheon.

After several efforts that dominated progressive rock, National Rock has one, maybe more melodic more refined proposal, a challenging treat for fans of the first hour and sounds most played Pez perhaps is reflected well in " The new". From "More Music", responsible for opening the new album, Minimal and theirs, slowly but surely, they build National Rock song to song.

Another aspect of National Rock is the commitment, this without having to read between the lines. The last track on the album, "Squash" is an ode and longing to Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a more interesting proposition than the classic "going back"; skin deep emotion, difficult to identify with politics. National Rock is at the end of the day, that; an exciting story that spans 10 songs, which is just over half an hour. Instead of grandstanding of the progressive, this time is the song as a single entity predominates.

Fans of the first hour surely relamerán with comparative (with a band history and discography of Pez, it's hard not to), but National Rock should be able to be judged as a single work, as warm tribute able to maintain its identity. From its top, a nod to the iconic magazine Hair, references to -the clear, the hidden, the imagined, because that's what's great "national rock", this evocation collectively to the founding fathers of our rock, the new Fish album is an achievement of innovation, an emboldened effort to get out of the boxes in which we, effort, of course, came more than good.