B| Décimas de Phuyu y la Fantasma by Phuyu y la Fantasma

Using an unnervingly cozy post apocalyptic setting to frame a relatable coming-of-age story, B| Décimas de Phuyu y la Fantasma by Phuyu y la Fantasma describes events of the current day as a series of traumatic cultural myths and legends. This post rock storybook follows a young girl in a post-climate-collapse community who abruptly learns the distorted, mythologized wisdom passed down from armageddon, tainting her blissful childhood memories with the knowledge of all the bodies buried beneath her feet. Childlike innocence enters musically through simple, sing-song melodies sacrificed to the crushingly intense post rock machine, enhancing the band’s stratospheric emotional swells founded upon looping distorted guitar and energetic drumming. The mind-meltingly short-sighted decisions we make today baffle this main character, leading her into the sort of deafening, heart-thumping mental states that we also encounter when discovering the unbelievable carnage and cruelty of history. By depicting us today as the silly, disgraceful creatures of mythical hubris, this album humbles us, asking us to consider our place not just in history, but in human eternity.