Search - Totimoshi :: Milagrosa

Real heavy rock for the chosen few, maybe

Fernando Benítez V | Mexico City, Mexico | 10/17/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Get it please, get it! make me feel that I'm not alone, and feed the mouths and stomachs of totimoshi members so that they can continue chruning out EXCELLENT music... This is true, timeless, heavy, melodic, cerebral and catchy heavy rock, not metal. In a perfect world, bands like this would be filling up stadiums or at least playing them, just like it used to happen back in the 70's, when you had Foghat playing with Mahogany Rush, and Rush, and Deep Purple, and Jeff Beck, and Johnny Winter, and maybe, if you got really lucky, Miles Davis and Queen and... you get the picture. Unfortunately, back in the early to mid-70's I was a child living in a repressed and somewhat poor country: Mexico, and rock n roll was banned by church and state- not anymore, though, but that's why I love this music so much: the lure of whatever your parents and teachers and cops and society thought was horrible and immoral and just plain 'primitive' haha! but rock music is so much more: it's art and it's sex and it's a whole trip, and it's beautiful, even in its alleged 'ugliness'. a ticket to other dimensions. it still is, in spite of mtv and corporate fashions and lost youth... whatever. my point is that it feels might good when you discover a band of this calibre, a 'newer' band, that is... this power trio can rock as hard as cream or blue cheer, hell yes! but they can also be as inventive and technical as say, the melvins, helmet or the rollins band... and as doomy as sabbath, trouble and the obsessed. their lyrics are total poetry, stuff about loss and pain and death and solitude and the passing of time, winter-bound, foerever bound... a nice soundtrack to these rainy days that seemingly are here to stay, to this slow-motion apocalypse called global warming and man-made destruction. but you know how it feels when you hear someone making art out their own pain and sorrow, which matches your own: you grow wings and feel inspired to do a few nice things of your own, like, maybe, your own rock band...

Ok, all in all, this is a great album. oddly enough, it will not sell by the bucket, since this stuff is way anti-commercial, though it borrows freely from classic rock, prog, metal, punk, grunge, and the blues, It's a damn shame, but, on the other hand, it's nice to know that they won't become shopping mall staples anytime soon. it is also one of the most 90's sounding albums I've heard in a while- and since things seem to come in cycles, I guess this postgrunge type of music is not cool to trendies and bandwagon hoppers, whteher in the underground or under the light of mass media. while everybody and their uncle are talking about how 'metllica is back' and other clichéd and not so truthful rhethorical news items, a few of us like to look ahead and find bands that make sense, even when they themselves are certainly giving a nod to an illustrious rocknroll past... does that make sense? I guess not, but there you go. believe me, if I could, I would give this album six stars out of five:******"