They’ve released a handful of singles and demos, and they’re headlining Beat Kitchen to celebrate their new debut EP,, which corrals bubblegum-sweet power-pop hooks and rough-and-tumble punk grit into six lean bilingual songs. The band sneak bits of melodic flair and instrumental complexity into this charmingly scrappy material, despite its straightforward simplicity.
They transform the stormy, morose punk of “When I’m Awake” into an all-out thrash spectacle whose blazing guitar riff feels like it could outrun the rhythm section. Rotundos like to play as fast as they can, if not faster, as if they’re in a rush to get their ideas out before they forget them. I get a jolt of energy when I listen to this EP—I can only imagine what it feels like to see the band play live.