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Love and Fear
- Extended Play CD
- Released 09/09/10 on Goodnight Records
Despite their sleepy Spanish name, the music of Boston band Muy Cansado is energetic and awake.
Muy Cansado is Spanish for “very tired.” Initially just a derelict inscription on the wall of the Boston rehearsal space where Chris Mulvey (vocals and guitars) and Lisa Libera (vocals and bass) first started playing music together, the budding outfit formally adopted the phrase as their band name in 2006.
The band spent 2007 and 2008 playing venues from beaches to biker bars, and in August 2008 they self-released their debut album, Stars & Garters, inspiring comparisons to 90’s alternative acts the Pixies, Lemonheads and Letters to Cleo, as well as the occasional Bob Dylan reference. Equal parts kinetic energy and meticulous song engineering, the dynamic interplay between Mulvey and Libera on “Stars and Garters” earned Muy Cansado a growing local fanbase and graduated the band from dingy biker bars to Boston’s better venues.
In 2009, drummer Jon Ulman joined the group and seized the invitation to contribute to the creative process. His fresh dance and pop sensibilities put an extra spring in the band’s step and tightened the screws on their increasingly polished circuitry.
“Love and Fear”, Muy Cansado’s first effort for Goodnight, places this evolution on prominent display throughout the four song EP’s melodically rich, rhythmically limber tunes, hinting at even broader dimensions for the rock mosaic that will be their next LP.
