LA Weekly has posted a brief review of the new record:

Notes From the Underground

By Falling James

Some bands write songs, but Aztlan Underground composes storms. The local post-punk collective’s new self-titled CD is their first album since 2001’s Sub-Verses, and only their third overall, following the 1995 debut, Decolonize. After eight years, they’ve got a lot on their minds, decrying war, social injustices and the destruction of indigenous cultures, through such rabid broadsides as “Smell the Dead” and “9/10/11/12 (Message to the Dominant Culture).” There’s a lot of rage against the machine in Yaotl’s caustic rants and raps, but guitarist Alonzo Beas also shapes some majestically psychedelic passages in epic tracks like “Moztlitta” and “Be God” (where Yaotl declares, “We are the fruits of celestial explosions/We are all God”). Aztlan Underground’s sounds and messages are heavy, with the thunderous rhythm section of bassist Joe Peps and drummer Ignacio “Caxo” Lopez laying down thick shards of punk and hard rock, but their music also draws upon the mystic natural power of “urban tribalism,” with flutes, rattles and other indigenous instrumentation.

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