New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Indie pop group Mosquitos have released their new album Mexican Dust. The trio's fourth album, and its first after a ten-year hiatus, the record was released on Six Degrees Records and sees the group expanding upon their brand of Brazilian-influenced indie songwriting which first earned them success. "There is always a sense of humor, I think, in our music," singer JuJu Stulbach admits, "but if you look to the lyrics on the record you will find us, frankly, a little bit lost, looking for a home." Equally vibrant and introspective, Mexican Dust finds a reunited Mosquitos exploring new sounds and ideas in unison.
Mexican Dust is available for purchase and streaming here: https://mosquitos.lnk.to/mexdust
Mosquitos previously shared the track "This Town," a synthesizer-infused paean to the excitement of big-city life that serves as the opening track on Mexican Dust. The song premiered with Brightest Young Things. This was soon followed by "Counting The Days," which premiered on Glide Magazine. "The song incorporates a melange of captivating sounds anchored by Juju Stulbach's dreamy voice and a playful, loping bass line," writes Glide. "It brings to mind the technicolor psychedelia of the
Flaming Lips and the percolating dream pop of Luna while also sounding completely its own."
A recurring theme on Mexican Dust is the search for a home, one that Stulbach as lyricist addresses head-on in "This Town," a sudden yearning for her frenetic New York City streets. Stulbach further explores this sense of detachment and longing in "Estrangeira" and the wryly humorous "Island in the Bathtub".
Mosquitos - singer Juju Stulbach, singer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Root, keyboardist-programmer Jon Marshall Smith - are musical nomads whose songs occupy a mythical place somewhere between Brooklyn and Brazil. After scoring a hit with their bossa-nova inspired song "
Boombox" in 2003, the group went on to release two more albums before going on hiatus. An out-of-the-blue offer for Mosquitos to contribute a song to an indie rock tribute album for the 30th anniversary of Fraggle Rock got Root and Smith talking again.
The group ultimately reconvened in New York City to record Mexican Dust with producer/arranger Michael Leonhart, a longtime sideman with
Steely Dan who has recorded with artists ranging from
A Tribe Called Quest to Yoko Ono. "I find Juju and Chris to be incredibly earnest friends and artists, always searching for new ways of pushing their own boundaries and self-expression," remarks Leonhart. "They are naturally gifted songwriters who together with Jon have created this unique micro-universe of tropicalia-punk-folk."
Mexican Dust tracklist:
1. This Town
2. Far Like Stars
3. Estrangeira
4. Counting The Days
5. Azulando
6.
Lights Pass By
7. Island In the Bathtub
8. So Lonely
9. Quantum Romanticum
10. Mexican Dust
11. Someone You Love
12. Into The Drain
13. Todo Fogo
14. Sometimes She's Blue.
