It has been four years since Fito & Fitipaldis released Cada vez cadáver and since then, silence had taken over the band. Now, that silence is broken with force: Los cuervos se lo pasan bien, the first advance of what will be their eighth studio album. A long-awaited comeback that, as always, comes loaded with emotion, honesty and recognizable guitars at the first chord.
The song also opens El Monte de los Aullidos, an album that Fito has been working on with his inseparable band and that promises to become an essential new chapter in his career. From the first seconds, the song hooks you: two guitars that pinch the strings, the drums marking the pulse and the unmistakable voice of Fito, fragile and powerful at the same time, which once again places us on that border between the vulnerable and the invincible.
“Llegué hasta el fondo y ya no sé volver / Será mejor que ahora me sueltes la mano”, sings Fito, in a statement that condenses the essence of this new single: looking squarely at the shadows and transforming them into music.
A band in top form
The sound of Los cuervos se lo pasan bien bears the usual signature: Carlos Raya on guitar, Javier Alzola on sax, Alejandro Climent “Boli” on bass and Coki Giménez on drums. With no new additions, the classic line-up of Fito & Fitipaldis proves once again that their chemistry is unquestionable.
The result is a direct theme, with that electric tremor that crosses from beginning to end and that ends in a climax of guitars and a final solo signed by Fito himself. A song that seems designed to be chanted live and that anticipates the strength that the next tour will bring.
Rock with scars, but no pose
The advance is not just a song: it is a manifesto. Fito sings of memory, of wounds and of the need to keep walking despite everything. There are almost cinematographic images in his verses – roads, hells, birds of passage – that reinforce that air of a journey without return but inevitably human.
With little more than four and a half minutes, Los cuervos se lo pasan bien stands as a letter of presentation of an album written without haste, recorded without pressure and made from the wound. A work where the songs are contingent, but Fito, once again, is necessary.
The countdown to El Monte de los Aullidos has already begun. And everything points to the fact that the stages will once again be territory conquered by Fito & Fitipaldis.
