FURGUSON
pop i rock //
Furguson spent a week at Cape Creus in September 2012, writing new material for their new album, The Leap Year (La Castanya, 2013). The songs they came up with conserve all the verve and fire we have come to expect from this Vic group (now a quartet after the departure of Albert Romero), added to which is a touch of obscurity, highly apt for 2013, and a good helping of melancholy.
These are songs that look inside but do not like what they find. The lyrics, introspective and rather cryptic, reveal a new maturity (“Heat” and “Sattva”). Unlike the tracks on their previous effort, the Split EP, a 12-inch shared with Aliment, The Leap Year conserves no trace of epic or expansive post-punk. This time around, the sound is rawer, the songs imbued with an increasingly conceptual air.