Hermanos Gutiérrez — the Ecuadorian-Swiss sibling duo of Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez — have announced that their new album Sonido Cósmico will be released June 14th on Easy Eye Sound. Sonido Cósmico is the follow-up to the brothers’ 2022’s breakout El Bueno Y El Malo, which Rolling Stone said “shimmers with hallucinogenic energy,” led to a Tiny Desk performance, and was named one of the Top Latin Albums of that year by NPR. Like its predecessor, Sonido Cósmico (which translates to “cosmic sound”) was produced by “third brother” Dan Auerbach. But where El Bueno Y El Malo evoked the desert — blistering sun, baking hot highways — the new work levitates the listener, conjuring the unknowable expansiveness of outer space and a world beyond our own. “It’s not on earth,” says Estevan, the elder Gutiérrez. “We’ve started to fly.”
The album announcement arrives today with a new music video for the title track, ‘Sonido Cósmico’ by frequent collaborator Robert “Roboshobo” Schober (Metallica, The Killers, The Arcs). Alongside the haunting, braided guitar lines that are a trademark of the HG sound, strings, drums and organ build the track to new heights, infusing the brothers’ new extraterrestrial explorations with a thrilling sense of tension and mystery. Elsewhere on Sonido Cósmico, Hermanos broaden their rhythmic palette, finding inspiration in cumbia and salsa. The collective result is a rare album that is inquisitive and experimental, yet centred by the spiritual connection that shines through in the brothers’ playing.
In December, Hermanos Gutiérrez released the standalone single, ‘Blood Milk Moon‘, a spacious and spectral tune that bridges the parallel worlds of El Bueno Y El Malo and Sonido Cósmico. Described by WNYC as “night music that is somehow not dark,” it was named to UPROXX’s Best New Indie list, and praised by FLOOD, who said that the song “takes themes of old Western standards and flips them with a delightful retromodern twist.”
1. Lágrimas Negras
2. Low Sun
3. Cumbia Lunar
4. Abuelita
5. El Fantasma
6. It’s All In Your Mind
7. Sonido Cósmico
8. Barrio Hustle
9. Until We Meet Again
10. Los Navegantes
11. Luz Y Sombra
12. Misterio Verde
Pre-order Sonido Cósmico here: https://click.ees.link/sonidocosmico
Tour Dates
Mar 16th | Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse (sold out)
Mar 17th | Charlotte, NC – The Underground
Mar 19th | Charlottesville, VA – The Jefferson Theatre
Mar 20th | Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
Mar 21st | Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
Mar 22nd | Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
Mar 24th | Lexington, KY – Lexington Opera House
Apr 2nd | Barcelona, ES – Parallel 62 (sold out)
Apr 3rd | Paris, FR – Salle Pleyel (sold out)
Apr 4th | Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg (sold out)
Apr 6th | Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg (sold out)
Apr 7th | London, UK – Shepherd’s Bush Empire (sold out)
Apr 14th | Indio, CA – Coachella Festival
Apr 18th | San Luis Obispo, CA – Alex Madonna Expo Centre (sold out)
Apr 19th | San Luis Obispo, CA – Alex Madonna Expo Centre
Apr 21st | Indo, CA – Coachella Festival
Apr 23rd | Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl *
Apr 24th | Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl *
Apr 26th | Albuquerque, NM – Revel *
Apr 27th | Albuquerque, NM – Revel *
May 7th | Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
May 8th | St. Louis, MO – The Hawthorn
May 9th | Kansas City, MO – The Truman
May 11th | Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
May 12th | Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall (sold out)
May 13th | Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
May 14th | Toronto, ON – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
May 16th | Montreal, QC – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier (sold out)
May 17th | Boston, MA – Royale
May 18th | New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel (sold out)
May 19th | New York, NY – Brooklym Steel
June 14th | Kent, UK – Black Deer Festival
Aug 14th | Coura, PT – Vodafone Paredes de Coura
Aug 16th | Biddinghuizen, NL – Lowlands Festival
* = w/ Khruangbin
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Photo credit – Jim Herrington