Bécquer

Bécquer's origins begin, with a good probability, on a skateboard, in the squares of Girona in the late 90's, when its members decided to put a soundtrack based on melodic punk-rock with bands such as Wash'n'go, Smooth and The Weapon. At the end of these bands Pane, Ivan, Dani and Robert join together to expand their skills towards the emo. Like much of the province and the country, they were temporary hotels in Sant Feliu de Guíxols where the best guitar bands were baked and, after a demo that was going around the province from concert to concert, they edited “Syncronized Movement” with Sixwasnine, produced by the then emerging Santi Garcia (Ultramarinos Costa Brava). Concerts followed with bands as Without, Zeidun, Red Sexy Band, Maple, 90 Day Men, Kevlar… A parenthesis started in 2005 concluded in 2014 to return to the stage and record and edit with Saltamarges the EP “The 9th spring” (2017) which, in seeking for maturity, led them to reality and the original formation was truncated. They allied with experimentation to persevere, recorded and self-published “The break” (2021) without a bassist. Actually the real break did not exist because they incorporated Carlus to the bass (Bullitt, Bad Mongos) and present this 2024 “Bring Back My Summer” where Bécquer have become theirs and no one else’s. If we pay attention to the lyrics of the album, the story of these challenges the listener with common spaces loaded with nostalgia that can only describe who has a personal and collective history. They resort to resilience and perseverance to tell personal relationships and celebrate themselves with a certain daring and disenchantment towards humanity, as represented by the magnificent cover’s artwork by Gerard Serrano. A return to the LP and to the quartet where the essence of Bécquer shines to tune 10 songs where the band is, more than ever, honest with themselves. The most dialoguing guitars shine in all of them. The drums accompanies forcefully without forgetting changes, drum rolls and setbacks that are already fingerprint, threaded by the four strings that, exquisitely unite the whole in the direction of the emo, yes, but also to the pop, to hard rock litanies and especially to them, to Bécquer. The vocals, alone or in choirs, invite the humming and at times the yell to the lung to, as a listener, let yourself be filled by the intensity and transcendentality of the album. Another mythical voice that has joined in collaboration on one of the themes is Fredrik Brändström from the legendaries Starmarket, a great reference for the band.