The real tipoff about the sound comes as soon as you open the gatefold for the CD case: “PERU PSICODELICA PUNK”, proclaims the front page of the liner notes. Yes, psychedelic, but more in the vein of Guitar Wolf or 5.6.7.8’s than Brainticket: it’s rattling surf rhythms gone berserk and wailing Echoplex guitar that sounds good coming out of a speaker most any size. There isn’t a song here longer than five minutes—most clock in at a single-friendly 3’00” or so—but their songwriting’s so tight and efficient it never feels like they’re skimming the surface of anything. Even the longest song (“Lima Ciudad”, about being on a downer in Lima City) bangs along at a peppy pace and leaves just when its welcome is worn out.

The band sings in Spanish, but have supplied English translations for everything. Not that it matters: the real attraction here is the band’s caterwauling power and fierce energy, not their off-the-rack anarchy-and-revolution lyrics. That said, they break away from it occasionally and do some poking around in darker corners: “Calles Oscuras” (“Dark Streets”), “5000 Años” (“5000 Years”) and “Lima Ciudad” are all about slightly more personal things. That they’re also great songs doesn’t hurt either: the drum break on “Calles Oscuras” alone is a gob-smacker. And it’s in good company with the rest of this record, which swings, snarls, brays, shoots for the moon and hits.