AQ’s Spring Playlist: A “Most Unconstitutional” New Album Roundup

This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Lula and Latin America El bueno y el malo by Los Hermanos Gutiérrez Ecuador The music of the Ecuadorian-Swiss duo Los Hermanos Gutiérrez would not be out of place in a spaghetti western—and indeed, their twangy guitars recall the film soundtracks of the great Ennio Morricone. The pair’s latest album, El bueno y el malo, nods to the 1966 classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, with its famous score by Morricone. “Pueblo Man,” a meditatively nostalgic track, rests—like all their compositions—on the subtle...

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