Seattle-based Pampa craft a mix of down-tempo guitar pop, dusty 1970s-vintage-tinged indie folk rock, and neo psychedelia dosed heavily with Latino influences, all of it finished with a layer of gray PNW moodiness. Buenos Aires native singer-songwriter-guitarist Moon Baillie helms the quartet, and his bilingual lyrics on new sophomore full-length La Contumacia are often abstract and delivered in poetic streams-of-consciousness, reflecting on the sun, the moon, sky, sand, love, the idea of home, the passage of time, open land and wilderness versus the city, existence âŚ
Pampa's show at Sunset Tavern this Saturday (with Caitlin Sherman and Hotel Vignette) celebrates the release of La Contumacia (âThe contumacy,â meaning âa stubborn refusal to obey or comply with authorityâ), and the album ranges from the bouncy yet haunted set opener âWhen the Dawn Is Gone,â to the darkly urgent Crazy Horseâvibing rock of âManiobrando (Con La Llama),â to the expansive, windswept luster of âSo Far (Yes, So Far),â which features guest vocals by the Black Tonesâ Eva Walker.
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