Mais Uma Canção

This song doesn't stay in what it says, but in how it says it. Mais Uma Canção sounds like a catharsis that becomes a riff, like a phrase that repeats until it becomes an obsession. The track starts with a clean pulse, almost minimalist, but by the one-minute mark, there's that melodic twist that seems to escape the structure, as if the band had decided to let the song breathe instead of forcing it into a mold. It's not a song you listen to in one go: you get stuck on that repeating detail, on how the bass and guitar converse without stepping on each other, as if each note had its own space to breathe.

They recorded it in Rio de Janeiro during the Bloco Do Eu Sozinho sessions, an album released in 2001 that earned them a Latin Grammy nomination in the best rock or alternative music album in Portuguese category. They weren't trying to sound like anything in particular, but like something that already existed in the Rio de Janeiro underground of the late 90s, when bands like Acabou La Tequila or Carne de Segunda blended rock with Brazilian rhythms without labels. The result is a song that doesn't demand attention, but sticks around: four minutes and twelve seconds of something that sounds like a confession made with guitars.