Pasar de las Luces, by Mint Field

Pasar de las Luces

by Mint Field

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EMBA Soundsystem El mejor álbum del genero, las integrantes hacen una combinación increible.
100/100 Favorite track: Ciudad Satélite.

sadsenzuri Lovely vocals and dreamy guitar work, it's hard not to love this release. It's an album perfect for relaxing on a somber night or a midnight drive through town, letting the shimmering chords let your mind run free to zone out in an almost meditative trance, while the bass and drums keep the song grounded and transitioning smoothly. I can't wait to hear what comes in the future from this incredibly talented duo. Favorite track: Para Gali.

zilannoj This is my favorite record of 2018. There isn't a song I don't like. It's like dreamy psychedelic rock with shoegaze and post-rock influences. Everything I like about music in general is in this album. Beautifully done. Favorite track: Para Gali.

Jarretr Bandcamp totally nailed it by making this an album of the day. This blissed-out LP is mind-blowing from the start. Swirling guitars, floating vocals, and tons of reverb and fuzz. Oh, and the songs are really good. Highly recommended. Favorite track: Ciudad Satélite.

gilesformiles This is a wonderfully crafted and polished album with its own unique sound. The songwriting is fantastic and it has genuinely inspired me. Thank you Mint Field! Favorite track: Boötes Void.

Ali Russell Beautiful! Easily the best album of 2018. Favorite track: Para Gali.

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1.	El Parque Parecía No Tener Fin 03:41	buy track
2.	Ojos En El Carro 05:28	buy track
3.	Ciudad Satélite 06:16	buy track
4.	Temporada De Jacarandas 05:42	buy track
5.	Quiero Otoño De Nuevo 04:51	buy track
6.	Cambios Del Pasar 03:26	buy track
7.	Viceversa 03:45	buy track
8.	Nostalgia 02:08	buy track
9.	Boötes Void 06:16	buy track
10.	Nada Es Estático Y Evoluciona 06:32	buy track
11.	Club De Chicas 05:19	buy track
12.	Para Gali 04:43	buy track
13.	Párpados Morados 06:06	buy track

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released February 23, 2018

Even though the Mexican border-town of Tijuana has a stigmatized history it has managed to produce many vibrant and unique artists. None are quite like Mint Field.

Comprised of 21-year-olds Estrella del Sol Sanchez and Amor Amezcua, Mint Field’s sound is organic, spacious, and inhabited by specters that lurk behind rhythms, where Estrella’s angelic voice evokes a supernatural world of beauty and melancholy.

Their new record, Pasar De Las Luces, first for LA-based Innovative Leisure Records, is “a compilation of our lives from two years ago to now” says the band. Since recording an initial EP in 2015 in their hometown of Tijuana, Mint Field have played Coachella, SXSW and have extensively toured the US and Mexico. In the summer of 2017 the band traveled to Detroit to record with producer Christopher Koltay. “We had a much clearer idea of what we wanted and we had the tools to make it. When we recorded [our debut EP] Primeras Salidas, it was a homemade album and we didn’t know what we were doing.” This time, they managed to channel their inspirations and influences to transmit sentiments of profound sorrow, nostalgia and immaculate beauty…revisiting sounds from the past to make them contemporary.

Mint Field’s vision comes alive on Pasar De Las Luces ‘s 13 immaculate tracks that nod to everything from dream pop to fuzz-saturated shoegaze. Album opener “El Parque Parecía No Tener Fin,” is a melodic number with haunting melodic lines where we can appreciate their post-punk tendencies. “Ciudad Satélite” has woven harmonies and crescendos that detonate into a flurry of feelings anchored by a dramatic bassline. “Quiero Otoño De Nuevo” goes full krautrock and is like an introverted, reflective and delicate Neu!. ”Cambios Del Pasar” borrows the distorted and imperfect guitar sounds of ‘90s indie bands like Yo Lat Tengo. “Nada Es Estático y Evoluciona” develops from minimalism into a silent scream and “Club De Chicas” is probably the peppiest song of the bunch. The whole record has a unique sound that makes it stand apart from projects by contemporaries.

While deceptively young themselves, Sanchez and Amezcua not only show the potential of influencing even younger fans, but of also defining themselves as stand alone voices in emotional music. Although they have a foot in the past, they never let themselves get caught by nostalgia; they reinterpret the best of what the past has to offer in order to better express their feeling in the present. It’s a timeless quality that will surely take them far into the future.

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Mint Field Mexico City, Mexico

Originally from Tijuana now based in Mexico City, two of the most exciting places for emerging music in Mexico. Guided by lead signer Estrella del Sol in vocal and guitar duties, Sebastian Neyra in the bass and Callum Brown in drums. The band explores the nostalgia and the melancholy of the daily life with loud guitars and vocals that give life to a unique and supernatural shoegaze. ... more

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