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El Cuy – Self Titled
Review by John Pegoraro (StonerRock.com)
World in Sound Music
Release date: 2007


Last year, I offered the opinion that Italy was the reigning champ for new underground rock 'n' roll. Based on El Cuy's self-titled debut, I may have to rescind that.

The Peruvian three-piece lays down the goods on this ten-song ass-kicker. Much like Austin, Texas' Amplified Heat, El Cuy relies on a classic "Plug in, turn it up, and kick out the jams" blues-rock mentality. It's nothing too fancy or out of the ordinary but damn if it doesn't deliver. Songs like "Animal," "Communicador," "Rucanrol," and "Juntos Y Separados" shuffle, boogie, groove, and just plain get down. Overall, El Cuy sounds like the type of band that can play a venue only once before getting banned for life for causing too much drunken mayhem. And frankly speaking, that's how it ought to be done.

If the song titles didn't give it away, the whole thing's sung in Spanish, but that doesn't really matter. Rock's a universal language and El Cuy's fluent.