Clones

Clones sounds like a broken mirror: the same melody repeating, but never quite the same. The song progresses with a rhythm that seems to walk in circles, as if each turn were an attempt to catch something that always slips away. The drums mark the pace with unforgiving precision, while the trumpets —always present in La Vela Puerca— intertwine with the guitar riffs in a dialogue that never quite resolves. It’s that tension between the repetitive and the organic that makes the song sound not like a simple loop, but like a question without an answer.

The song was born in the same process that shaped El Impulso, the band’s fourth album. Between November and December 2006, La Vela Puerca recorded in three different studios: Panda Studios in Buenos Aires, IFU in Montevideo, and Casa Blanca in Atlántida. The process wasn’t linear: mixing was only finished in February 2007, and mastering was done by Tom Baker in Los Angeles. The result was a sound that, though recorded in pieces, feels like a single take. Juan Campodónico led the artistic production, giving it that balance between rawness and polish that defines the album. At just 3:28 long, Clones encapsulates that search for perfection in imperfection, where every note seems crafted to last one second longer than necessary.