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First official publication of unreleased studio recordings made during 1985. One of the earliest examples of dark-tinted rock from the 80's underground in Argen-tina, directly licensed from bass player Jurek Szwedo.
Double sided insert with liner notes and photographs, in both english and spanish.
Early practitioners of a dark and brooding post-punk sound unlike anything else coming out of the 80's argentinian rock underground. Formed by polish migrants along with local members of the emerging punk scene in Buenos Aires, Antihéroes managed to record only a hadful of songs during their short initial run.
These recordings went unreleased until now.
Their legacy remained in limbo when, in the late 80's, singer Mónica Vidal and her boyfriend Pablo Esaú went missing when the plane they were flying in disappeared somewhere between Bolivia and Brazil.
Our take: Archival single from this obscure 80s Argentine punk/post-punk band. The story here is rather interesting. Antiheroes was started by young Polish immigrants to Argentina who brought with them records by bands like Siekiera and Brigada Kryzys, and the gloomy grey vibes on this 7” evoke eastern Europe much more than South America. While the band was around for five years, they only got into a professional studio once to record these tracks at the studio of 80s Argentine pop singer Silvestre in 1985. The songs are dark, pulsing post-punk with understated but charismatic vocals and a keyboard adding subtle texture and counter-melody around the edges of the mix. The sound is grainy and washed-out, again bringing to mind brutalist architecture and heavy, neutral-tone overcoats. Adding to the mystery, Antiheroes’ vocalist Monica Vidal disappeared after boarding a flight from Bolivia to Brazil, never to be heard from again. It’s too bad we don’t have more songs from this group as their heavy vibes are something I want to soak myself in, but an excellent two-song single, well-produced with liner notes in English and Spanish, will have to do.