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El retorno 2025
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El retorno

The Return by Santiago Barrionuevo sounds like that album recorded among friends in a garage with borrowed gear, yet it ends up sounding as if months had been spent in a luxury studio. In 2025, the musician from La Plata —better known as the chango of El mató a un policía motorizado— launched his solo career with material that smells of freshly pressed vinyl and late-night rehearsals until the body can’t take it anymore. The album doesn’t aim for polish: it carries that warm rawness of someone playing because they must, because it comes naturally, and in the process inventing something not found in any manuals.

Year
2025
Songs
11
Duration
40 min 1 seg
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El retorno, according to DoReSol

What stands out most is how Oh Dana and Google Maps steal the show. The former is the kind of song one hums without realizing, with a rhythm that feels plucked from an 80s movie but lyrics about loves lost along the way. The latter, however, has the vibe of a sonic road movie: the bass sounds as if it’s walking down a nighttime highway, and the drums mark the pace of someone who doesn’t want to reach any destination. It’s no coincidence that Soy tu gomoso —that hit already blasting on every radio— is the track that hooks fastest: it has a riff that sticks to the mind like a magnet and lyrics that feel scribbled on a bar napkin.

Behind it all is the recording process: three days in a borrowed space, with gear that wasn’t the best but worked, and a group of musicians who played as if there were no tomorrow. The result is an album that doesn’t sound like a studio project but like something alive, as if each track had been born in the exact moment it was recorded. There are no last-minute fixes, no overdubs smoothing out imperfections: just the sound of someone who played because they had to play.