Diles Que No Me Maten write Escrito En Agua like a funeral march that learned to shapeshift

Diles Que No Me Maten’s Escrito En Agua earns fresh weekend attention, and the Mexico City band sound like exactly the kind of group that makes genre labels start sweating. Stereogum’s write-up frames the album as a superb sonic shapeshifter, opening with a funeral New Orleans jazz-dirge feeling before wandering into territory that can evoke Can, avant-rock, ritualistic psychedelia and narrative spoken-word drama. The band’s name translates as “Tell them not to kill me,” which already gives the music a literary, haunted edge before a note plays. What makes the record appealing for an indie digest is the sense of movement: songs that do not sit still, arrangements that feel like geography, and a band treating rock as a vessel for ghosts, memory and unstable ceremony. Escrito En Agua sounds like music written in water but carved into the nerves.

Source: https://stereogum.com/2503638/stream-mexican-avant-rock-band-diles-que-no-me-matens-superb-sonic-shapeshifter-escrito-en-agua/music/